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Wayne County, Illinois

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL191 · Wayne County 12 sys · 661 viol · #1952/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 28.0% health
  • RANK-MID #1952/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 75%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Wayne County ranks #1,952 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #62 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

Wayne County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 91.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 28.0% 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 #1,952 of 3,254 · #62 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Wayne County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest Bureau · near Wayne · this county Pulaski · highest 58.8% 91.1% 91.1% 91.4% 91.7% 91.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Fairfield 6,202 138 Clean
Western Wayne Water District 3,516 94 -
Jasper Waterworks Corporation 1,578 38 -
New Hope Waterworks Corp 1,285 39 -
Wayne City 1,239 24 -
Boyleston Waterworks Corp 948 28 -
Cisne 634 12 -
Jeffersonville (Geff) 355 27 -
Sims 259 79 -
Mount Erie 128 177 -
Wal-Mart Supercenter #0454 25 0 -
Ice House America Fairfield 25 5 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for Wayne County

Cross-state counties nearest Wayne County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (661). 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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