Is SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS's water safe to drink?
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 3,924, over 1,527 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS has 6 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,804th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 47th percentile nationally.
How SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS compares within IL
Among the 560 IL systems in this dataset, the average is 5.0 health-based violations - SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS's 2 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 1997-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS'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
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
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
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS'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. Between the utility's meter and SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,804th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.