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White County, Illinois

11 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 13,966 people in White County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

11
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
388
Total violations Lower third of counties
90.9%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IL193 · White County 11 sys · 388 viol · #2081/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 3.9% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2081/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 64%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, White County ranks #2,081 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #66 of 102 counties in Illinois. See methodology · corpus placement.

White County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 3.9% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,081 of 3,254 · #66 of 102 in Illinois.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around White County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sangamon · lowest White · this county Boone · near Pulaski · highest 58.8% 90.5% 90.9% 90.9% 91.1% 91.1% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Carmi 6,307 31 Clean
Norris City 2,155 33 -
Grayville 1,613 163 -
Crossville 1,091 11 -
Enfield 1,064 75 -
Brownsville Water Project, Inc 800 12 -
Burnt Prairie 486 5 -
Mill Shoals 224 16 -
Springerton 176 32 -
Wal-Mart Supercenter 0833 25 0 -
Ice House Carmi 25 10 -

Compare beyond Illinois

Lower-flagged peers for White County

Cross-state counties nearest White County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (388). 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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