Is NEW BADEN's water safe to drink?
NEW BADEN has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 4,178, over 1,500 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
6 total violations and 2 health-based ones put NEW BADEN at the 47th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,803 of 12,903.
How NEW BADEN compares within IL
NEW BADEN's 2 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 NEW BADEN is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2014-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NEW BADEN'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Atrazine
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is NEW BADEN's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for NEW BADEN - 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.