What's in WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's water?
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 8,000, over 54 connections.
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's record against the rest of the country
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY has 15 violations on record in total, 11 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,834th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 86th percentile nationally.
How WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY compares within IL
Among the 560 IL systems in this dataset, the average is 5.0 health-based violations - WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's 11 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY is from 2025-01-10 (health-based: 2013-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY'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); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
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
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY'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 WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,834th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.