Effingham County, Illinois

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    16

  • Community Water Systems

    12

  • Systems with Violations

    1

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    9

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    08/29/2023

  • Population Served

    23,494

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    16.35%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    17

  • CWA Total Violations

    28

The American Community Survey

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

    18

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.128%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    34,594

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $73,181

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

    3.4%

  • MALE

    17,394

  • FEMALE

    17,200

  • MEDIAN AGE

    39.3

  • MULTIRACIAL

    33,822

  • WHITE

    32,918

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    190

  • LATINO

    772

  • ASIAN

    235

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    16

  • 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=17049 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