Is CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP's water safe to drink?
CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,825 people get their water from it, across 2,830 connections.
CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP ranks 4,896th by violation burden (62th percentile) - 33 violations total, 3 health-baseds.
How CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP compares within MI
MI's 390 covered systems average 1.3 health-based violations each; CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP carries 3, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP is from 2023-11-11 (health-based: 2007-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,896th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.