Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MI2007548
Big Lake Campground
Operator location L'anse, Michigan - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 50 people served; 11 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 50
- People served (this PWS)
- 11
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Big Lake Campground standing, low SDWIS violation third
50 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Big Lake Campground is in the lower third by violation count (11; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is smaller (50; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 11
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 50
- 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
- Luce
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 7
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 3 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 1 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Big Lake Campground has 11 recorded EPA violations, 19% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 79% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 11), 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)
11 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 79% 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 Big Lake Campground
EPA SDWIS lists 50 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
11 violations · 50 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Big Lake Campground
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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