RIVER ROUGE: EPA violation history, explained
RIVER ROUGE had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 7,224 people through 3,025 service connections.
RIVER ROUGE's record against the rest of the country
14 total violations and 1 health-based ones put RIVER ROUGE at the 38th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,002 of 12,903.
Against the MI average
RIVER ROUGE's 1 health-based violations sit within the MI average of 1.3, across 390 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
RIVER ROUGE's most recent violation on record is dated 2026-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2023-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
The concern categories on record
RIVER ROUGE'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 RIVER ROUGE's record does not cover
This is what RIVER ROUGE 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. Between the utility's meter and RIVER ROUGE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,002th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.