Is PANA's water safe to drink?
PANA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,800 people get their water from it, across 2,657 connections.
PANA's record against the rest of the country
85 total violations and 39 health-based ones put PANA at the 97th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 387 of 12,903.
Against the IL average
Among the 560 IL systems in this dataset, the average is 5.0 health-based violations - PANA's 39 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
PANA's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2005-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
The concern categories on record
PANA'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); Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Atrazine; CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 PANA's record does not cover
Everything on this page is PANA'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 PANA's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 387th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.