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Jersey County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL083 · Jersey County 7 sys · 303 viol · #1687/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 71.4% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 11.2% health
  • RANK-MID #1687/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 71%
  • SYS-TINY 7 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Champaign County (+ 0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Jersey County ranks #1,687 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #54 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Jersey County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 71.4% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 11.2% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,687 of 3,254 · #54 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Jersey County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Cook · near Jersey · this county Pulaski · highest 58.8% 70.4% 70.5% 71% 71.4% 71.6% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Jersey Rwc 12,750 32 Detected
IL American-Jerseyville 8,737 189 Clean
New Piasa Chautauqua PWS 335 29 -
Fieldon 186 45 -
Pere Marquette State Park 25 8 -
Wal-Mart Supercenter 0253 25 0 -
Twice the Ice Jerseyville 25 0 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Jersey County

Cross-state counties nearest Jersey County on flagged-system share (71.4%) and cumulative violation count (303). 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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