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Douglas County, Illinois

16 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 18,548 people in Douglas County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

16
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
574
Total violations Lower third of counties
81.3%
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 IL041 · Douglas County 16 sys · 574 viol · #1841/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 81.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 11.7% health
  • RANK-MID #1841/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 94%
  • SYS-SMALL 16 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Douglas County ranks #1,841 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #60 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Douglas County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 81.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 11.7% is health-based share in the middle 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 #1,841 of 3,254 · #60 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Douglas County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Livingston · near Effingham · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 81.1% 81.1% 81.3% 81.3% 81.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Douglas County

Cross-state counties nearest Douglas County on flagged-system share (81.3%) and cumulative violation count (574). 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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