Community Water System · PWS MI0005680
Franklin Township
Operator location Hancock, Michigan - 38% of 61 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 300 served per SDWIS.
- 300
- People served (this PWS)
- 61
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 23
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Franklin Township standing, mid SDWIS violation third
38% of 61 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 38% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Franklin Township lands in the middle third by violation volume (61), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (300; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 38% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 61
- Total EPA violations on record
- 38%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 300
- 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
- 122
- County
- Houghton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 23
- Monitoring Violations
- 31
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 23 | 2004 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2025 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Franklin Township has 61 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 38% of this system's own violations are health-based (23 of 61), 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)
61 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Franklin Township
23 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MI0005680.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division
Nationwide peers
61 violations · 300 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 Franklin Township
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