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Macon County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL115 · Macon County 25 sys · 886 viol · #552/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 84.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 45.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #552/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 64%
  • SYS-SMALL 25 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Macon County ranks #552 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Macon County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 84.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 45.5% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #552 of 3,254 · #17 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Macon County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Adams · near DeKalb · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 84% 84% 84% 84.2% 84.4% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Decatur 76,122 99 Clean
Long Creek Township PWS 7,850 22 Clean
Mount Zion 5,833 159 Detected
Forsyth 3,490 12 Clean
Maroa 1,700 55 -
Harristown 1,320 34 -
Blue Mound 1,300 159 -
Warrensburg 1,230 50 -
Macon 1,205 10 -
Argenta 900 86 -
Oreana 892 20 -
Pride of the Prairie Rest Area 800 20 -
Ej Water-Niantic 648 58 -
Decatur MHP, LLC 500 35 -
Boody Community Water Company 232 19 -
Rock Springs Visitor Center 125 11 -
Culligan Water Conditioning 100 3 -
Ads Valley View Landfill, Inc 60 0 -
The Micar Company 53 24 -
Culligan at Wal-Mart-Maryland 25 0 -
Culligan at Wal-Mart-Prospect 25 0 -
Water Island Kroger Airport Pz 25 5 -
Glacier Water-Kroger South Shores 25 1 -
Kroger J-922 #2 25 0 -
Twice the Ice Decatur 25 4 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Macon County

Cross-state counties nearest Macon County on flagged-system share (84.0%) and cumulative violation count (886). 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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