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Berrien County, Michigan

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MI021 · Berrien County 210 sys · 4,797 viol · #467/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 80.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 13.8% health
  • RANK-TOP #467/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.5 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 94%
  • SYS-LARGE 210 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Kalamazoo County ( -0.5 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Berrien County ranks #467 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #15 of 83 counties in Michigan. See methodology · corpus placement.

Berrien County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 80.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 13.8% is health-based share in the middle 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 #467 of 3,254 · #15 of 83 in Michigan.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Berrien County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Oscoda · lowest Gogebic · near Gratiot · near Menominee · highest 52.9% 80% 80% 80.5% 81% 81.4% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Southwest Michigan Regional Sanitary Sew 26,780 0 Clean
Niles 14,215 106 Clean
Benton Harbor 9,103 843 Clean
St Joseph 7,930 17 Clean
Benton Charter Township 6,768 15 Clean
Buchanan 4,871 30 Clean
Lake Charter Township 4,177 7 Clean
Andrews University 3,000 32 -
New Buffalo Township 2,845 2 -
Chikaming Township 2,825 98 -
Watervliet 2,735 162 -
Niles Township 2,270 22 -
Bridgman 2,096 96 -
Berrien Springs 1,910 38 Clean
New Buffalo 1,900 7 -
Mdot - Watervliet, R706 1,877 0 -
Three Oaks 1,622 35 -
Oronoko Township 1,610 28 -
Coloma 1,555 167 -
Coloma Township 1,425 0 -
Baroda 910 13 -
Riverside Food Mart 800 6 -
Fullers Resort & Campground 796 14 -
Summit Church 750 3 -
Bear Cave Resort 1 684 21 -
Bear Cave Resort 2 684 0 -
Bear Cave Resort 3 684 2 -
Bear Cave Resort 4 684 8 -
Eau Claire 610 51 -
St. Bernard's Church 600 13 -
Lk Mich Beach Prop Owner Assoc 558 21 -
Coloma/St Joseph KOA 540 10 -
Belle Plaza South 525 27 -
Riverfront Park Campground 520 23 -
Cannabis Club 520 0 -
Countryside Academy Elementary School 500 0 -
Jars 6.0 500 4 -
Cntryside Acad - Meadowbrooks Sm Class 495 71 -
Countryside Academy-Meadowbrook Main Sch 495 0 -
North Lake Event Center 402 3 -
Berrien Center Bible Church 400 4 -
Millburg Shell 400 9 -
Midway Baptist Church 325 3 -
Dimaggio's Pizza 300 4 -
Mdot - Jonas R.p. Artesian Flow P719 300 6 -
Meadow Streams Estates 293 59 -
Grand Beach 272 22 -
Vickers Engineering, Inc. 270 4 -
Sweet Cherry Resort 250 15 -
Tabor Hill Winery & Restaurant 250 10 -

Compare beyond Michigan

Lower-flagged peers for Berrien County

Cross-state counties nearest Berrien County on flagged-system share (80.5%) and cumulative violation count (4,797). 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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