Community Water System · PWS MI0001400
Chikaming Township
Operator location Harbert, Michigan - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 98 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,825 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,825
- People served (this PWS)
- 98
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Chikaming Township standing, high SDWIS violation third
98 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,052 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Chikaming Township sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (98), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,825 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,052 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #334 of 1,375
- Population · MI
- 98
- Total EPA violations on record
- 11%
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 2,830
- County
- Berrien
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 78
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2007 |
| TTHM | MR | 6 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 6 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 4 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Benzene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Toluene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Styrene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Chikaming Township has 98 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 98), and it ranks #11,052 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)
98 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Chikaming Township
98 violations on record for MI0001400; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division
Nationwide peers
98 violations · 2,825 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 Chikaming Township
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