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Edgar County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL045 · Edgar County 11 sys · 1,089 viol · #2184/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 81.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 28.1% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2184/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 91%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Edgar County ranks #2,184 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #77 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Edgar County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 81.8% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 28.1% 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 #2,184 of 3,254 · #77 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Edgar County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Edgar · this county Randolph · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 81.6% 81.8% 81.8% 81.8% 82.1% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Paris 9,100 41 Clean
Chrisman 1,200 352 -
Kansas 707 35 -
Hume 450 252 -
Brocton 288 235 -
Vermilion 250 69 -
Metcalf 200 87 -
Castle Finn Winery 154 14 -
Culligan @ Wal-Mart - Paris 25 0 -
Bufords Wash 25 4 -
Ice House Paris 25 0 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Edgar County

Cross-state counties nearest Edgar County on flagged-system share (81.8%) and cumulative violation count (1,089). 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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