Benton Harbor

Water Quality Snapshot: Benton Harbor

Benton Harbor is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 9,103 residents in Benton Harbor, Michigan (Berrien County) through 3,335 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 843 total violations for this system , of which 63 (7%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 737 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Endrin, recorded in 27 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Michigan, EPA tracks 10,959 public water systems serving 9,098,093 people, with 255,201 cumulative violations and 31,467 health-based violations on record. About 86% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 23.3 violations. Statewide, 87 of 318 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (27.4%).

Benton Harbor's 843 violations sit above the Michigan average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.