Is WESTERN SPRINGS's water safe to drink?
WESTERN SPRINGS had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 13,274 people through 4,572 service connections.
How this compares nationally
WESTERN SPRINGS has 15 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,329th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 51th percentile nationally.
How WESTERN SPRINGS compares within IL
IL's 560 covered systems average 5.0 health-based violations each; WESTERN SPRINGS carries 2, not more than typical for the state. 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 SPRINGS is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 2025-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WESTERN SPRINGS'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)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
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 WESTERN SPRINGS'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 WESTERN SPRINGS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,329th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.