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McDonough County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL109 · McDonough County 24 sys · 2,854 viol · #1263/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 83.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 29.9% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1263/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 63%
  • SYS-SMALL 24 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, McDonough County ranks #1,263 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #42 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

McDonough County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 83.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 29.9% 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 #1,263 of 3,254 · #42 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around McDonough County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Jackson · near Fayette · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 83.3% 83.3% 83.3% 83.3% 83.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Macomb 15,052 195 Clean
Western Illinois University 8,000 68 Clean
Bushnell 2,972 70 Clean
West Prairie Water Co-Op 2,395 6 -
Colchester 1,395 172 -
Blandinsville 569 49 Clean
Industry 540 29 -
Good Hope 536 40 -
New Salem Pwd 451 97 -
Prairie City 425 152 -
Bardolph 303 219 -
Kiljordan Meadows 282 0 -
Sciota 180 7 -
Victory Baptist Church 75 30 -
Walnut Gr United Methodist Chu 50 59 -
Bushnell Market 50 4 -
Walmart Supercenter 0197 50 0 -
Stratford West Association, Inc. 44 1,590 -
Jerusalem United Methodist Church 40 39 -
Envirofil of Illinois 31 11 -
Macomb Municipal Airport 25 14 -
Hyvee Inc 25 0 -
Just Chillin Ice and Water 25 3 -
Midwest Ice LLC 25 0 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for McDonough County

Cross-state counties nearest McDonough County on flagged-system share (83.3%) and cumulative violation count (2,854). 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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