Mercer County, Illinois

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    27

  • Community Water Systems

    14

  • Systems with Violations

    2

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    3

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    02/14/2024

  • Population Served

    11,100

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    5.88%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    2

  • CWA Total Violations

    7

The American Community Survey

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

    20

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.311%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    15,692

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $67,028

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

    3.5%

  • MALE

    7,951

  • FEMALE

    7,741

  • MEDIAN AGE

    44.7

  • MULTIRACIAL

    15,256

  • WHITE

    14,773

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    96

  • LATINO

    436

  • ASIAN

    74

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    0

  • 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=17131 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