Community Water System · PWS MI0002120
Elsie, Village Of
Operator location Elsie, Michigan - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 966 people served; 53 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 966
- People served (this PWS)
- 53
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Elsie, Village Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
966 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,183 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Elsie, Village Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (53), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (966; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,183 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #660 of 1,375
- Population · MI
- 53
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- 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
- 456
- County
- Clinton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 32
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 9 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 4 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Elsie, Village Of has 53 recorded EPA violations, 58% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 53), and it ranks #20,183 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)
53 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Elsie, Village Of
EPA SDWIS lists 966 people served and 456 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division
Nationwide peers
53 violations · 966 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Elsie, Village Of
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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