Community Water System · PWSID MI0002565

Garfield Charter Township

Serves 12,899 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentTraverse City, Michigan
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On record since 2002: 2 violations. 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 47% 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

2002 · Notice or report: 120052010201520202023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 2

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3 ppb
2 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served12,899
Service connections8,909
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityTraverse City
EPA ZIP on file49684

Areas served

  • Grand Traverse County

Reading this record

Garfield Charter Township is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 12,899 people in Traverse City, 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.