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Is Crystal Lawns, IL tap water safe?

Joliet serves Crystal Lawns, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Illinois’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Joliet serves Crystal Lawns. In EPA’s and Illinois’s records it has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 54.7 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Joliet is very hard, typically 224 mg/L (13.1 grains per gallon). How Illinois’s water compares.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Joliet’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Crystal Lawns

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Illinois certifies.

The 3 labs Illinois certifies closest to Crystal Lawns, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Will County Health Department

    Joliet, IL · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (815) 727-8517

  • Eurofins Built Environment Testing Central-Chicago

    Naperville, IL · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (331) 330-2066

  • ETP Labs, Inc.

    Willowbrook, IL · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (630) 891-3392

Illinois Department of Public Health: Coliform bacteria and nitrate testing for private wells, with sample bottles from your local health department, or from the department's nearest regional office where there is none. You mail the sample to the lab, and results come back through the health department. Well Sampling for Coliform & Nitrate, Illinois Department of Public Health.

All 30 certified labs for Illinois

ZIP codes in Crystal Lawns

Which ZIP codes are in Crystal Lawns: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Illinois Department of Public Health, certified water microbiology laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.