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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MI2038444

Scotts Miracle Gro Co.

Operator location Imlay City, Michigan - 35% of 31 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 50 served per SDWIS.

50
People served (this PWS)
31
EPA violations (this PWS)
11
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Scotts Miracle Gro Co. standing, mid SDWIS violation third

35% of 31 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 35% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Scotts Miracle Gro Co. lands in the middle third by violation volume (31), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (50; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 35% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

31
Total EPA violations on record
35%
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.

F
Water Safety Score
32/100
Scotts Miracle Gro Co.

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
11
EPA SDWIS health-based violations on record (MCL, MRDL, treatment technique)
Monitoring & reporting violations D
20
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Lapeer
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
11
Monitoring Violations
20
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Arsenic MR 9 2021
Coliform (TCR) MCL 9 2003
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 8 2021
Arsenic MCL 2 2006
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 1994
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 1995

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Scotts Miracle Gro Co. has 31 recorded EPA violations, 43% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 56% carry more. 35% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 31), 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)

31 Lower than most fewer violations than 56% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Scotts Miracle Gro Co.

11 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MI2038444.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division

Nationwide peers

31 violations · 50 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Scotts Miracle Gro Co.

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