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Shelby County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL173 · Shelby County 13 sys · 1,078 viol · #2173/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 84.6% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 17.4% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2173/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 77%
  • SYS-SMALL 13 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Shelby County ranks #2,173 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #76 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Shelby County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 84.6% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 17.4% is health-based share in the middle 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 #2,173 of 3,254 · #76 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Shelby County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Kendall · near Shelby · this county Pulaski · highest 58.8% 84.2% 84.4% 84.4% 84.6% 84.6% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Shelbyville 6,174 11 Clean
Moweaqua 1,785 5 -
Windsor 1,200 71 -
Findlay 750 303 -
Stewardson 747 27 -
Cowden 612 25 -
Tower Hill 500 84 -
Sigel 386 23 -
Herrick 358 519 -
Knobs Baptist Church 70 7 -
Prairie Pure Vending 25 3 -
Walmart #4259 25 0 -
Twice the Ice Shelbyville 25 0 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Shelby County

Cross-state counties nearest Shelby County on flagged-system share (84.6%) and cumulative violation count (1,078). 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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