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Coles County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL029 · Coles County 16 sys · 520 viol · #868/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 16.3% health
  • RANK-UPPER #868/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 40.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 56%
  • SYS-SMALL 16 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Coles County ranks #868 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #24 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Coles County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 16.3% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 40.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #868 of 3,254 · #24 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Coles County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Coles · this county Schuyler · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 87.1% 87.5% 87.5% 87.5% 87.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Mattoon 19,500 71 Detected
Charleston 17,286 35 Detected
Clear Water Service Corp 8,900 19 Clean
Eastern Illinois University 5,500 46 Clean
Embarras Area Water District 3,750 32 Clean
Oakland 739 39 -
Cooks Mills Water Association 720 27 -
Ashmore 637 72 -
Longacre Estates MHP 375 78 -
Humboldt 361 81 -
Walmart Mattoon 50 0 -
Shiney Hiney Wash Co 35 6 -
County Market #450 25 3 -
Walmart Supercenter #0612 25 0 -
Champion Ice Mattoon 25 8 -
Twice the Ice Charleston 25 3 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Coles County

Cross-state counties nearest Coles County on flagged-system share (87.5%) and cumulative violation count (520). 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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