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Is Frankfort Square, IL tap water safe?

Frankfort serves Frankfort Square, 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

Frankfort serves Frankfort Square. In EPA’s and Illinois’s records it has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 62.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Frankfort is very hard, typically 561 mg/L (32.8 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 Frankfort’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Frankfort Square

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 Frankfort Square, 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 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (815) 727-8517

  • ETP Labs, Inc.

    Willowbrook, IL · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (630) 891-3392

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc.

    Merrillville, IN · about 26 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (219) 769-8378

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 Frankfort Square

Which ZIP codes are in Frankfort Square: 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.

Near Frankfort Square

Other towns in Will County with a page of their own.

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