Community Water System · PWSID MI0040212

Northern Pines

Serves 13 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateStandish, Michigan
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 1999: 21 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 13 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-06.

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
1Treatment lapse1 open
13Missed or late test1 open
7Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 94% 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 · Missed or late test: 12000200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 162% missed or late test · 1333% notice or report · 7

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

18 ppb
2 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-01-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  4. 2024-07-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  5. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-01-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-01-01ChlorideWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  5. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  6. 2024-07-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  7. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  8. 2024-05-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2024-01-01ChlorideWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2023-11-11Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 2023-10-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2020-10-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2019-04-27E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-11-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2011-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 1999-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served13
Service connections31
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityStandish
EPA ZIP on file48658

Areas served

  • Iosco County

Reading this record

Northern Pines is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 13 people in Standish, 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.