Lake County, Illinois

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    547

  • Community Water Systems

    103

  • Systems with Violations

    52

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    4

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    103

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    08/19/2021

  • Population Served

    722,387

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    3.35%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    18

  • CWA Total Violations

    102

The American Community Survey

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

    468

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.184%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    713,159

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $104,553

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

    2.6%

  • MALE

    359,281

  • FEMALE

    353,878

  • MEDIAN AGE

    38.7

  • MULTIRACIAL

    550,703

  • WHITE

    420,382

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    46,314

  • LATINO

    162,456

  • ASIAN

    60,362

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    719

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    256

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=17097 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