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Midland County, Michigan

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MI111 · Midland County 34 sys · 402 viol · #774/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 82.4% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 16.7% health
  • RANK-UPPER #774/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 82%
  • SYS-SMALL 34 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Van Buren County ( -0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Midland County ranks #774 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #22 of 83 counties in Michigan. See methodology · corpus placement.

Midland County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 82.4% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 16.7% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #774 of 3,254 · #22 of 83 in Michigan.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Midland County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Oscoda · lowest Van Buren · near Houghton · near Menominee · highest 52.9% 81.8% 82.2% 82.4% 82.6% 82.6% 100%

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

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Compare beyond Michigan

Lower-flagged peers for Midland County

Cross-state counties nearest Midland County on flagged-system share (82.4%) and cumulative violation count (402). 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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