Is PARIS's water safe to drink?
PARIS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,100 people get their water from it, across 4,115 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
PARIS has 16 violations on record in total, 12 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,645th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 87th percentile nationally.
How PARIS compares within IL
PARIS's 12 health-based violations sit above 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 PARIS is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 1996-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PARIS'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Atrazine
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
PARIS'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 - 12 health-based violations on file for PARIS - 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.