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Bay County, Michigan

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MI017 · Bay County 29 sys · 248 viol · #583/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 72.4% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 45.2% health
  • RANK-TOP #583/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.4 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 72%
  • SYS-SMALL 29 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Kent County ( -0.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Bay County ranks #583 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #18 of 83 counties in Michigan. See methodology · corpus placement.

Bay County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 72.4% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 45.2% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #583 of 3,254 · #18 of 83 in Michigan.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Bay County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Oscoda · lowest Benzie · near Bay · this county Menominee · highest 52.9% 71.6% 71.7% 72% 72.4% 72.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Bay City, City Of 32,255 21 Clean
Bangor Township 11,999 0 Clean
Hampton Township 9,652 11 Clean
Bay Co. Dept of Water & Sewer 8,465 0 Clean
Williams Township 5,444 3 Clean
Monitor Township 5,217 0 Clean
Frankenlust Township 3,626 2 Clean
Essexville, City Of 3,478 2 Clean
Kawkawlin Township 3,170 6 -
Bangor-Monitor Metro District 2,971 9 -
Auburn 2,087 24 -
Kawkawlin Metro Dist Water Sup 1,480 10 -
Pinconning Township 1,479 4 -
Merritt Township 1,474 3 -
Fraser Township 1,226 0 -
Beaver Township 1,211 23 -
Pinconning, City Of 1,204 19 -
Linwood Metropolitan District 909 58 -
Beaver Road Area Water Assoc. 829 20 -
Portsmouth Township 535 14 -
The Tipsy Cowboy 80 4 -
D's Corner Market, LLC 50 0 -
Crump Pump 50 6 -
Duel Bar 50 0 -
Bentley Bar 40 0 -
Silver Derby Est 23 40 4 -
Kitchen Road Camp 30 4 -
Dj's Country Store 25 1 -
Bay Area Water System 0 0 -

Compare beyond Michigan

Lower-flagged peers for Bay County

Cross-state counties nearest Bay County on flagged-system share (72.4%) and cumulative violation count (248). 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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