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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MI2007731

Copper Country Christian School

Operator location Chassell, Michigan - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 75 people served; 71 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

75
People served (this PWS)
71
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Copper Country Christian School standing, mid SDWIS violation third

75 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Copper Country Christian School lands in the middle third by violation volume (71), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (75; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

71
Total EPA violations on record
3%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
75
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Houghton
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
38
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 1999
Arsenic MR 6 2011
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 2 2020
Barium MR 2 1996
Cadmium MR 2 1996
Chromium MR 2 1996
Mercury MR 2 1996
Beryllium, Total MR 2 1996
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 1995
Thallium, Total MR 2 1996
Antimony, Total MR 2 1996
Selenium MR 2 1996
CYANIDE MR 2 1996

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Copper Country Christian School has 71 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 71), 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)

71 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% 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 Copper Country Christian School

EPA SDWIS lists 75 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

71 violations · 75 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Copper Country Christian School

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