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Clay County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL025 · Clay County 9 sys · 301 viol · #2343/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 77.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 38.5% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2343/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 56%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Clay County ranks #2,343 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #85 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Clay County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 77.8% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 38.5% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,343 of 3,254 · #85 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Clay County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Clay · this county Vermilion · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 76.7% 77.8% 77.8% 78% 78.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Flora 5,233 49 Clean
Clay County Water Inc 2,015 22 -
Louisville 1,201 52 -
Clay City 957 51 -
Xenia 542 77 Clean
Iola 158 46 -
Priceless #447 25 4 -
Wal-Mart Supercenter #0506 25 0 -
Ice House America Flora 25 0 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Clay County

Cross-state counties nearest Clay County on flagged-system share (77.8%) and cumulative violation count (301). 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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