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Jackson County, IL drinking water systems

16 community water systems serve Jackson County, IL, reporting 55,707 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

7 of them (44%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 7 systems still have one unresolved.

1 relies mainly on groundwater and 15 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 0 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 3,858 lines of unknown material.

4 more systems are placed in Jackson 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
16
People served, sum of each system's own figure
55,707
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
7
Systems with one unresolved
7
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Jackson County

16 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
Carbondale Carbondale 22,107 Surface water 4 0 0
Murphysboro Murphysboro and Harrison 10,241 Purchased surface water 1 1 0
South Highway PWD Outside cities and towns 4,972 Purchased surface water 4 0 0
Murdale PWD Outside cities and towns 4,963 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Lakeside PWD Outside cities and towns 3,065 Purchased surface water 4 2 0
De Soto De Soto and land outside it 1,910 Purchased surface water 0 0 No inventory
Dowell Du Quoin and Dowell 1,188 Purchased surface water 0 1 0
Gorham Gorham 1,143 Purchased surface water 0 1 0
Oraville Water District Ava 1,108 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Elkville Elkville and land outside it 1,068 Purchased surface water 1 2 0
Ava Ava 1,053 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Buncombe Water District Buncombe and Makanda 1,030 Purchased surface water 4 1 0
Vergennes Vergennes 648 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Grand Tower Grand Tower 559 Groundwater 0 0 0
Campbell Hill Campbell Hill 414 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Crab Orchard Estates Carbondale and land outside it 238 Purchased surface water 2 1 No inventory

Systems placed by county record in Jackson County

4 systems

EPA has no service area map for these systems. 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
Elverado Water District County on record 763 Purchased surface water 0 1 0
Evergreen Wildwood Mobile Home Park County on record 230 Purchased surface water 3 1 0
Murphysboro LSRC County on record 167 Purchased surface water 0 0 No inventory
Kinkaid Area Water System County on record 1 Surface water 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Jackson County

12 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