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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MI2068525

Lake Fenton West Shore Elementary

Operator location Fenton, Michigan - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 488 people served; 69 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

488
People served (this PWS)
69
EPA violations (this PWS)
12
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lake Fenton West Shore Elementary standing, mid SDWIS violation third

488 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

Lake Fenton West Shore Elementary lands in the middle third by violation volume (69), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (488; 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.

69
Total EPA violations on record
17%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
488
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
Genesee
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
12
Monitoring Violations
56
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Arsenic MCL 10 2022
Arsenic MR 7 2020
Lead and Copper Rule MR 5 1995
BHC-GAMMA MR 2 1999
Methoxychlor MR 2 1999
Toxaphene MR 2 1999
OXAMYL MR 2 1999
Picloram MR 2 1999
Atrazine MR 2 1999
2,4,5-TP MR 2 1999
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 2 1999
Pentachlorophenol MR 2 1999
Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) MR 2 1999
Chlordane MR 2 1999
Endrin MR 2 1999
Heptachlor MR 2 1999
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 2007
LASSO MR 2 1999
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene MR 2 1999
Dinoseb MR 2 1999
Heptachlor epoxide MR 2 1999
Carbofuran MR 2 1999
Nitrate MR 2 1996
2,4-D MR 2 1999
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2000
Simazine MR 2 1999

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lake Fenton West Shore Elementary has 69 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 35% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 69), 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)

69 Around the middle fewer violations than 35% 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 Lake Fenton West Shore Elementary

EPA SDWIS lists 488 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

69 violations · 488 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Lake Fenton West Shore Elementary

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