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Adams County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL001 · Adams County 25 sys · 2,040 viol · #766/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 84.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.6% health
  • RANK-UPPER #766/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 76%
  • SYS-SMALL 25 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Macon County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Adams County ranks #766 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #22 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Adams County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 84.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 5.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #766 of 3,254 · #22 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Adams County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Adams County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Macon · near DeKalb · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 84% 84% 84% 84.2% 84.4% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Quincy 42,000 78 Detected
Abs Water Coop 6,858 35 Clean
Mill Creek Pwd 5,755 15 Clean
Blessing Hospital 2,460 1 -
Clayton-Camp Point Water Commission 2,434 15 -
Payson 1,386 42 -
Camp Point 1,190 45 -
Mendon 953 34 Clean
Adams County Water District No 1 833 93 -
Clayton 709 51 -
Ursa 626 200 -
Golden 620 5 -
Liberty 609 12 -
IL Veterans Home (Quincy) 401 16 -
Loraine 300 180 -
Plainville 264 34 -
Lima 168 79 -
Expressway MHP 98 27 -
Clayton Work Camp 83 0 -
La Prairie 47 32 -
J M Huber Well 2 26 595 -
Walmart #1454 Vending Machine 25 0 -
Hyvee on Broadway Quincy 25 0 -
Hyvee on Harrison Quincy 25 0 -
J M Huber Well 1 25 451 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Adams County

Cross-state counties nearest Adams County on flagged-system share (84.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,040). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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