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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MI2021017

Chippewa Co. Road Commission

Operator location Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 42 people served; 48 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

42
People served (this PWS)
48
EPA violations (this PWS)
8
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Chippewa Co. Road Commission standing, mid SDWIS violation third

42 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 17% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Chippewa Co. Road Commission lands in the middle third by violation volume (48), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (42; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 17% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

48
Total EPA violations on record
17%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
42
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.

F
Water Safety Score
29/100
Chippewa Co. Road Commission

Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.

Health-based violations F
8
EPA SDWIS health-based violations on record (MCL, MRDL, treatment technique)
Monitoring & reporting violations F
40
Non-health SDWIS violations (monitoring, reporting, and other compliance)
PFAS contamination N/A
Not UCMR5-tested
Highest PFAS compound level detected in UCMR5 testing

System Details

System Type
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Chippewa
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
8
Monitoring Violations
40
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 8 2015
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 8 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 2001
Nitrate MR 4 1999
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2011
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2011
Vinyl chloride MR 1 2011
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 1 2011
Xylenes, Total MR 1 2011
Styrene MR 1 2011
Benzene MR 1 2011
CHLOROBENZENE MR 1 2011
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 1 2011
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2011
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 1 2011
Ethylbenzene MR 1 2011
Toluene MR 1 2011
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2011
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2011
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 1 2011
Carbon tetrachloride MR 1 2011
Trichloroethylene MR 1 2011
Tetrachloroethylene MR 1 2011
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 1 2011
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 1 2011

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Chippewa Co. Road Commission has 48 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 48), 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)

48 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Chippewa Co. Road Commission

EPA SDWIS lists 42 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

48 violations · 42 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Chippewa Co. Road Commission

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