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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MI2001860

Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Operator location Lewiston, Michigan - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 200 people served; 31 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

200
People served (this PWS)
31
EPA violations (this PWS)
5
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Bethlehem Lutheran Church standing, mid SDWIS violation third

200 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Bethlehem Lutheran Church lands in the middle third by violation volume (31), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (200; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

31
Total EPA violations on record
16%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
200
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Montmorency
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
23
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 12 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 2006
Coliform (TCR) MCL 5 1998
Nitrate MR 3 2006

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Bethlehem Lutheran Church has 31 recorded EPA violations, 43% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 56% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 31), 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)

31 Lower than most fewer violations than 56% 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 Bethlehem Lutheran Church

EPA SDWIS lists 200 people served and 1 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

31 violations · 200 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Bethlehem Lutheran Church

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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