HOUGHTON: EPA violation history, explained

HOUGHTON has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 8,386 people through 1,426 service connections.

HOUGHTON's record against the rest of the country

7 total violations and 1 health-based ones put HOUGHTON at the 34th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,463 of 12,903.

How HOUGHTON compares within MI

MI's 390 covered systems average 1.3 health-based violations each; HOUGHTON carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for HOUGHTON is from 2023-01-02 (health-based: 1996-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

HOUGHTON'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

HOUGHTON's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and HOUGHTON's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,463th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.