Community Water System · PWSID MI0005549

Lake Michigan Beach Resort Pottawattamie

Serves 80 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateColoma, Michigan
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On record since 1999: 3 violations. 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2007-07-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 59% 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

1999 · Notice or report: 12000 · Missed or late test: 1200020052007 · Notice or report: 12010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% missed or late test · 167% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2000-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served80
Service connections17
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityColoma
EPA ZIP on file49038-9484

Areas served

  • Berrien County

Reading this record

Lake Michigan Beach Resort Pottawattamie is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 80 people in Coloma, 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.