Is Gilberts, IL tap water safe?
The short answer
2 of the 4 utilities serving Gilberts have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Illinois’s records: Carpentersville and Elgin.
Gilberts, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and Illinois’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
The water from Gilberts is soft, 26 mg/L (1.5 grains per gallon). How Illinois’s water compares.
A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Gilberts’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Gilberts
Illinois · serves 8,366 people · about 4,300 in Gilberts
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: soft, 26 mg/L (1.5 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
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West Dundee
Illinois · serves 7,845 people · about 520 in Gilberts
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 2.4 ppb, above the health goal. Hardness: soft, typically 18 mg/L (1.1 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
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Carpentersville
Illinois · serves 37,983 people · under 100 in Gilberts
1 result above the action level and 2 results above the health goal. The worst: Copper at 1.4 ppm, above the action level. Hardness: hard to very hard depending on the source, 150 to 290 mg/L (8.8 to 17 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
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Elgin
Illinois · serves 114,797 people · under 100 in Gilberts
1 result above the action level, 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lead at 18.5 ppb, above the action level. Hardness: moderately hard to hard depending on the source, 83 to 128 mg/L (4.8 to 7.5 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Gilberts
The 3 labs Illinois certifies closest to Gilberts, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Suburban Laboratories, Inc.
Geneva, IL · about 16 miles
Certified for bacteria
Pace Analytical Services, LLC - McHenry
McHenry, IL · about 16 miles
Certified for bacteria
McHenry County Health Department
Woodstock, IL · about 16 miles
Certified for bacteria
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 IllinoisWhich ZIP codes are in Gilberts: 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 Gilberts
Other towns in Kane County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Gilberts’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water