CARDINAL RESTAURANT

Water Quality Snapshot: CARDINAL RESTAURANT

CARDINAL RESTAURANT is a private-owned transient non-community water system that delivers drinking water to 200 residents in CUSTER, Michigan (Mason County) through 1 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 260 total violations for this system , of which 4 (2%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 256 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2024.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Revised Total Coliform Rule, recorded in 16 violations (MON). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Michigan, EPA tracks 10,959 public water systems serving 9,098,093 people, with 255,201 cumulative violations and 31,467 health-based violations on record. About 86% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 23.3 violations. CARDINAL RESTAURANT's 260 violations sit above the Michigan average. Statewide, 87 of 318 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (27.4%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.