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Ford County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL053 · Ford County 16 sys · 937 viol · #2268/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 68.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 7.5% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2268/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 16 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Ford County ranks #2,268 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #80 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Ford County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 68.8% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 7.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,268 of 3,254 · #80 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Ford County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Jefferson · near Perry · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 68.8% 68.8% 69.1% 70% 70.4% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Paxton 4,500 7 Clean
Gibson City 3,500 19 Clean
Piper City 875 44 -
Melvin 465 60 -
Roberts 367 67 -
Sibley 272 109 -
Elliott 269 43 -
Cabery 266 157 -
Kempton 235 141 -
Stelle Community Assn 100 107 -
Beacon Paxton LLC 55 0 -
Kirby Food Paxton 400 55 0 -
County Market R/O Unit 55 0 -
Twice the Ice Paxton 50 0 -
Twice the Ice Gibson City 25 0 -
Gdm Seeds 25 183 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Ford County

Cross-state counties nearest Ford County on flagged-system share (68.8%) and cumulative violation count (937). 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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