Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID MI2018775

Banks Hardwoods - Office

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWhite Pigeon, Michigan
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2004: 9 violations. 2 over the limit · 7 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2024-12-30.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test1 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% of active water systems in Michigan. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2004 · Missed or late test: 120052010 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Over the limit: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
22% over the limit · 278% missed or late test · 7

Across Michigan, 91% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-10-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2017-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.06 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2016-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 13.14 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2010-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWhite Pigeon
EPA ZIP on file49099

Areas served

  • St. Joseph County

Reading this record

Banks Hardwoods - Office is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in White Pigeon, Michigan. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.