Community Water System · PWSID IL0915030

Aqua Illinois-Kankakee

Serves 80,000 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateKankakee, Illinois
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2019: 6 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 5 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-08-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test1 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 68% of active water systems in Illinois. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152019 · Missed or late test: 120202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% treatment lapse · 183% missed or late test · 5

Across Illinois, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 12 results on file · action level 15 ppb

131 ppb
17 ppb
14 ppb
7.5 ppb
6 ppb
5.8 ppb
5.8 ppb
4.2 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.4 ppb
2 ppb
1.8 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

3.3 mg/L

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-01ChloramineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served80,000
Service connections29,188
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityKankakee
EPA ZIP on file60901

Areas served

  • Kankakee, Kankakee County

Reading this record

Aqua Illinois-Kankakee is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 80,000 people in Kankakee, Illinois. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.