Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MI2020706
Standish/Sterling High School
Operator location Tawas City, Michigan - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 516 people served; 171 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 516
- People served (this PWS)
- 171
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Standish/Sterling High School standing, high SDWIS violation third
516 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #28,229 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Standish/Sterling High School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (171), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (516; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,229 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,189 of 1,375
- Population · MI
- 171
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
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
- 3
- County
- Arenac
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 13
- Monitoring Violations
- 157
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 13 | 2006 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2020 |
| Arsenic | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Simazine | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Benzene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Toluene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Styrene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Endrin | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2011 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Standish/Sterling High School has 171 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 171), and it ranks #28,229 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
171 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Standish/Sterling High School
EPA SDWIS lists 516 people served and 3 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
171 violations · 516 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Standish/Sterling High School
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