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Community Water System · PWS MI0003920

Litchfield

Operator location Litchfield, Michigan - 30% of 23 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,310 served per SDWIS.

1,310
People served (this PWS)
23
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Litchfield standing, mid SDWIS violation third

30% of 23 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 30% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,067 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Litchfield lands in the middle third by violation volume (23), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,310 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 30% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#17,067 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#524 of 1,375
Population · MI
23
Total EPA violations on record
30%
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
563
County
Hillsdale
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
7
Monitoring Violations
15
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 7 1994
TTHM MR 6 2019
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 6 2019
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Litchfield has 23 recorded EPA violations, 35% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 64% carry more. 30% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 23), and it ranks #17,067 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)

23 Lower than most fewer violations than 64% 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 Litchfield

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 MI0003920.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division

Nationwide peers

23 violations · 1,310 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Litchfield

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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater