Is MCLEANSBORO's water safe to drink?
MCLEANSBORO has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. 2,812 people get their water from it, across 1,415 connections.
MCLEANSBORO's record against the rest of the country
MCLEANSBORO has 21 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,815th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 39th percentile nationally.
How MCLEANSBORO compares within IL
MCLEANSBORO's 1 health-based violations sit within the IL average of 5.0, across 560 systems statewide. 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 MCLEANSBORO is from 2026-10-08 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MCLEANSBORO'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is MCLEANSBORO's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and MCLEANSBORO's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,815th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.