Community Water System · PWS MI0003238
Houghton Lake Timber Apts.
Operator location Cedar Springs, Michigan - 51% of 79 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 48 served per SDWIS.
- 48
- People served (this PWS)
- 79
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 40
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Houghton Lake Timber Apts. standing, high SDWIS violation third
51% of 79 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 51% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Houghton Lake Timber Apts. sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (79), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (48; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 51% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 79
- Total EPA violations on record
- 51%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 48
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 24
- County
- Roscommon
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 32
- Monitoring Violations
- 36
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 8
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 32 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 17 | 2015 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 5 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 1995 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 3 | 2007 |
| E. COLI | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 2018 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Houghton Lake Timber Apts. has 79 recorded EPA violations, 68% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 51% of this system's own violations are health-based (40 of 79), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
79 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% 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 Houghton Lake Timber Apts.
40 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MI0003238.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division
Nationwide peers
79 violations · 48 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.
What to do with Houghton Lake Timber Apts.
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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