Community Water System · PWS MI0004890
South Shore Water System
Operator location Onsted, Michigan - 25% of 32 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 488 served per SDWIS.
- 488
- People served (this PWS)
- 32
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
South Shore Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third
25% of 32 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 25% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
South Shore Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (32), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (488; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 25% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 32
- Total EPA violations on record
- 25%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 488
- 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.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 244
- County
- Lenawee
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 21
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 13 | 2007 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2000 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
South Shore Water System has 32 recorded EPA violations, 44% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 55% carry more. 25% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 32), 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)
32 Lower than most fewer violations than 55% 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 South Shore Water System
8 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MI0004890.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division
Nationwide peers
32 violations · 488 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.
What to do with South Shore Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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