Newberry Water & Light, MI Water Quality
Newberry Water & Light: EPA violation history, explained
Newberry Water & Light has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,000 people get their water from it, across 877 connections.
Newberry Water & Light's record against the rest of the country
Newberry Water & Light has 17 violations on record in total, 5 of them health-based - ranking it 3,632th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 72th percentile nationally.
Against the MI average
MI's 390 covered systems average 1.3 health-based violations each; Newberry Water & Light carries 5, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Newberry Water & Light's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-02-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2002-01-03. Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
The concern categories on record
Newberry Water & Light'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 Newberry Water & Light's record does not cover
This is what Newberry Water & Light reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 17 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.