Ishpeming Twp - West, MI Water Quality
What's in Ishpeming Twp - West's water?
Ishpeming Twp - West has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,148 people get their water from it, across 1,030 connections.
Ishpeming Twp - West's record against the rest of the country
Ishpeming Twp - West has 7 violations on record in total, 4 of them health-based - ranking it 4,528th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 65th percentile nationally.
How Ishpeming Twp - West compares within MI
Among the 390 MI systems in this dataset, the average is 1.3 health-based violations - Ishpeming Twp - West's 4 is above that. 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 Ishpeming Twp - West is from 2018-11-10 (health-based: 2011-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Ishpeming Twp - West'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
Ishpeming Twp - West'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. This record - 4 health-based violations on file for Ishpeming Twp - West - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.