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De Witt County, Illinois

20 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 12,816 people in De Witt County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

20
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
1,264
Total violations Middle third of counties
90.0%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL039 · De Witt County 20 sys · 1,264 viol · #2162/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 52.8% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2162/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.5 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 95%
  • SYS-SMALL 20 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Grundy County (+ 0.5 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, De Witt County ranks #2,162 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #73 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

De Witt County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 52.8% 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 #2,162 of 3,254 · #73 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around De Witt County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest De Witt · this county Logan · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 89.4% 90% 90.5% 90.9% 90.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for De Witt County

Cross-state counties nearest De Witt County on flagged-system share (90.0%) and cumulative violation count (1,264). 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).

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

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