DeKalb County, Illinois

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    58

  • Community Water Systems

    20

  • Systems with Violations

    4

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    1

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    19

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/10/2022

  • Population Served

    100,827

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    2.54%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    3

  • CWA Total Violations

    18

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    36

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.092%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    100,686

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $68,617

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    4.7%

  • MALE

    50,029

  • FEMALE

    50,657

  • MEDIAN AGE

    31.8

  • MULTIRACIAL

    88,330

  • WHITE

    74,958

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    7,590

  • LATINO

    12,356

  • ASIAN

    2,424

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    73

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    0

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=IL&p_fips=17037 Other .gov state water resources: https://epa.illinois.gov/topics/drinking-water.htmlhttps://www.epa.gov/waterdata/water-quality-data Additional state water resources:https://www.isws.illinois.edu/dat