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Calhoun County, Michigan

148 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 94,845 people in Calhoun County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

148
SDWIS water systems Larger third of counties
3,433
Total violations Upper third of counties
87.8%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
40.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (5 tested) Upper third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MI025 · Calhoun County 148 sys · 3,433 viol · #602/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 8.1% health
  • RANK-TOP #602/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.4 pp
  • PFAS-MID 40.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-LARGE 148 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Calhoun County ranks #602 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #19 of 83 counties in Michigan. See methodology · corpus placement.

Calhoun County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.8% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 8.1% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 40.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #602 of 3,254 · #19 of 83 in Michigan.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Calhoun County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Oscoda · lowest Allegan · near Calhoun · this county Menominee · highest 52.9% 87.2% 87.4% 87.4% 87.8% 88.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Calhoun County

Cross-state counties nearest Calhoun County on flagged-system share (87.8%) and cumulative violation count (3,433). 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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