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Allegan County, Michigan

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MI005 · Allegan County 318 sys · 5,441 viol · #532/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-LOW · SRC-GW · SYS-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.4% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 14.3% health
  • RANK-TOP #532/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-LOW 20.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-LARGE 318 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Manistee County ( -0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Allegan County ranks #532 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 83 counties in Michigan. See methodology · corpus placement.

Allegan County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.4% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 14.3% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 20.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #532 of 3,254 · #17 of 83 in Michigan.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Allegan County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Allegan County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Oscoda · lowest Grand Traverse · near Manistee · near Menominee · highest 52.9% 86.6% 87.2% 87.4% 87.4% 87.8% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Allegan 5,930 18 Clean
Kalamazoo Lake Sewer & Water Authority 5,000 102 Clean
Wayland 4,435 25 Clean
Otsego 4,120 3 Detected
Plainwell 3,998 9 Clean
Bittersweet Ski Resort Inc 3,500 7 -
Laketown Township 3,200 0 -
Sandy Pines Wilderness Trls #1 2,500 2 -
Fennville 2,438 18 -
US 131 Motorsports Park 2,000 44 -
Mdot - Saugatuck, R727 1,800 3 -
Mdot - Glenn, R726 1,800 8 -
Jbs Packerland 1,500 91 -
Lake Doster 1,492 26 -
Otsego Township 1,133 12 -
Sandy Pines Wilderness Trls #4 1,000 3 -
Speedway 1,000 85 -
Camp Beechpoint 1,000 3 -
Camp Beechpoint, Inc. 1,000 0 -
Hamilton High School Pool 1,000 5 -
Camp Beechpoint 1,000 0 -
Hamilton Middle School 900 6 -
J & H Oil Co - Hamilton 900 24 -
Hamilton Middle School 900 5 -
Dorr Moose Lodge 900 30 -
Sun Retreats Gun Lake 900 13 -
Sun Retreats Gun Lake 900 0 -
Hamilton High School 875 0 -
Dorr Elementary 800 61 -
Martin Marathon 800 13 -
Tri-Ponds Family Camp Resort 800 9 -
Burnips Marathon 800 0 -
Tri-Ponds Family Camp Resort (Seasonal) 799 0 -
Martin 785 29 -
Sandy Pines Wilderness Trls #3 762 4 -
J & H Oil Co - Otsego West End Mobil Mar 750 3 -
Hunters Glen 700 1 -
Doster Country Store 700 51 -
Jensen's RV Park 700 25 -
M-89 Shell 700 17 -
Hopkins High School 600 3 -
Cd Quik Mart 600 0 -
North Pointe Church 600 6 -
Paris Ridge Elementary School 550 0 -
Otsego Moose- Campground 500 19 -
Town & Country Supermarket - Gun Lake 500 11 -
Short Stop 500 21 -
Crane's Pie Pantry Restaurant 500 10 -
Otsego Moose Lodge 345 500 17 -
Oval Beach Concession Stand 500 23 -

Compare beyond Michigan

Lower-flagged peers for Allegan County

Cross-state counties nearest Allegan County on flagged-system share (87.4%) and cumulative violation count (5,441). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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