Is NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY's water safe to drink?
NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 5,483, over 2,193 connections.
NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY's record against the rest of the country
9 total violations and 1 health-based ones put NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY at the 36th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,309 of 12,903.
How NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY compares within IL
IL's 560 covered systems average 5.0 health-based violations each; NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY 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 NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY is from 2022-06-12 (health-based: 1998-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY'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: Coliform (TCR)
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 NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY'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 NORTHEAST MOUNT VERNON WATER COMPANY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,309th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.