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Effingham County, IL drinking water systems

10 community water systems serve Effingham County, IL, reporting 22,418 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

4 of them (40%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 1 system still has one unresolved.

3 rely mainly on groundwater and 7 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 27 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 233 lines of unknown material.

2 more systems are placed in Effingham County, IL by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
10
People served, sum of each system's own figure
22,418
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
4
Systems with one unresolved
1
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Effingham County

10 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Effingham Effingham 12,252 Surface water 0 0 0
Lake Sara Area Water Co-Op, Inc. Effingham and land outside it 3,352 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Altamont Altamont 2,300 Surface water 2 0 0
Teutopolis Teutopolis 1,599 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Dieterich Dieterich 900 Purchased groundwater 0 0 No inventory
Ej Water-Watson Watson 754 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Beecher City Beecher City 500 Purchased groundwater 4 2 0
Edgewood Edgewood 440 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Ej Water-Montrose Montrose 201 Purchased groundwater 4 0 0
Snake Trail Wtr Assn Effingham 120 Purchased surface water 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Effingham County

2 systems

EPA has no service area map for some of these systems, and the maps it has for the others do not line up with their own records. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Heartville PWD County on record 1,092 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Easy Breeze Manufactured Home Park County on record 108 Purchased surface water 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Effingham County

8 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations