Is INDIAN HEAD PARK's water safe to drink?
INDIAN HEAD PARK has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 3,240 people through 935 service connections.
INDIAN HEAD PARK's record against the rest of the country
8 total violations and 1 health-based ones put INDIAN HEAD PARK at the 35th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,400 of 12,903.
How INDIAN HEAD PARK compares within IL
IL's 560 covered systems average 5.0 health-based violations each; INDIAN HEAD PARK carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for INDIAN HEAD PARK is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 1986-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
INDIAN HEAD PARK's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
INDIAN HEAD PARK's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for INDIAN HEAD PARK - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.