Knox County, Illinois

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    47

  • Community Water Systems

    17

  • Systems with Violations

    9

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    1

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    25

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    02/20/2019

  • Population Served

    49,743

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    15.58%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    12

  • CWA Total Violations

    26

The American Community Survey

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

    93

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.449%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    49,751

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $50,263

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

    3.7%

  • MALE

    25,294

  • FEMALE

    24,457

  • MEDIAN AGE

    42.3

  • MULTIRACIAL

    46,666

  • WHITE

    40,484

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    3,973

  • LATINO

    3,085

  • ASIAN

    499

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    28

  • 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=17095 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