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Grand Traverse County, Michigan

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MI055 · Grand Traverse County 180 sys · 8,262 viol · #867/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #867/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-MID 33.3% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 98%
  • SYS-LARGE 180 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, Grand Traverse County ranks #867 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #23 of 83 counties in Michigan. See methodology · corpus placement.

Grand Traverse County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.2% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 1.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 33.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #867 of 3,254 · #23 of 83 in Michigan.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Grand Traverse County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Oscoda · lowest 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
Traverse City 14,532 8 Clean
Garfield Charter Township 12,899 4 Clean
East Bay Charter Township 3,720 12 Detected
Blair Township 2,788 2 -
Peninsula Township 1,790 2 -
Kingsley, Village Of 1,657 91 -
Kings Court Mobile Home Park 1,200 9 -
Christ the King Church 1,000 39 -
Interlochen Center for the Arts 750 1 -
Meadowlane Mobile Home Park 650 21 -
Timber Ridge Resort - Campground 600 61 -
Boathouse Restaurant 520 4 -
Materne North America 500 168 -
McDonald's of Acme 500 54 -
Sara Lee 450 13 -
Tcaps - Long Lake Elem School 410 24 -
Silver Shores Mobile Home Park 360 13 -
Old Mission Peninsula School 350 138 -
Tcaps - Westwoods Elem School 350 103 -
Jolly Pumpkin Restaurant & Brewery 325 14 -
New Hope Community Church 305 23 -
New Hope Comm. Ch. Youth Center 305 27 -
Speedway #8700 (Williamsburg) 300 0 -
Edge 72 288 0 -
Tcaps - Silver Lake Elem School 270 9 -
Ez Mart - Fife Lake 265 0 -
Boone's Long Lake Inn 250 27 -
Elmbrook Golf Course 250 65 -
Physician's Realty Group LLC 250 4 -
Tcaps - Courtade Elem School 208 138 -
Dollar General #30738 (Williamsburg) 205 0 -
Ranch Rudolf 200 5 -
Interlochen Golf Course 200 91 -
The Gym 200 76 -
Church of the Living God 200 111 -
Bay Meadows Golf Course 200 47 -
Stone Hound Brewing 186 0 -
Woodland School 180 215 -
Traverse Bay Mennonite Church 173 0 -
Nmcaa Preschool (Interlochen) 170 10 -
Fife Lake Elementary 166 148 -
Wendy's - Interlochen 165 0 -
Dollar General #25880 (Long Lake Twp) 155 6 -
Suburban Estates MHP 150 18 -
Whitewater Twp Park Campground 150 8 -
Bayview Inn Restaurant 150 114 -
Interlochen Plaza East 150 62 -
Grand Traverse Bay YMCA 150 14 -
42nd Street Plaza 130 397 -
Ez Mart - Courtade 130 0 -

Compare beyond Michigan

Lower-flagged peers for Grand Traverse County

Cross-state counties nearest Grand Traverse County on flagged-system share (87.2%) and cumulative violation count (8,262). 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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