Community Water System · PWS MI0000725
Birchwood Farms
Operator location Harbor Springs, Michigan - 32% of 22 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,227 served per SDWIS.
- 1,227
- People served (this PWS)
- 22
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Birchwood Farms standing, mid SDWIS violation third
32% of 22 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 32% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,613 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Birchwood Farms lands in the middle third by violation volume (22), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,227 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 32% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,613 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #546 of 1,375
- Population · MI
- 22
- Total EPA violations on record
- 32%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 412
- County
- Emmet
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 14
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 1996 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2016 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2018 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Birchwood Farms has 22 recorded EPA violations, 34% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 65% carry more. 32% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 22), and it ranks #17,613 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
22 Lower than most fewer violations than 65% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Birchwood Farms
7 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MI0000725.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division
Nationwide peers
22 violations · 1,227 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Birchwood Farms
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Michigan compares on the same EPA violation measures. Michigan systems
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