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Berrien County, MI drinking water systems

32 community water systems serve Berrien County, MI, reporting 101,766 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

11 of them (34%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 3 systems still have one unresolved.

21 rely mainly on groundwater and 11 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 2,692 lead lines, 1,753 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 10,830 lines of unknown material.

9 more systems are placed in Berrien County, MI by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
32
People served, sum of each system's own figure
101,766
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
11
Systems with one unresolved
3
Lead service lines in inventories
2,692

Water systems serving Berrien County

32 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Southwest Michigan Regional Sanitary Sew Fair Plain, St. Joseph and 2 more and land outside them 26,780 Purchased surface water 0 1 2
Niles Niles and land outside it 14,215 Groundwater 0 0 414
Benton Harbor Benton Harbor, Benton Heights and 2 more 9,103 Surface water 11 0 0
St Joseph St. Joseph 7,930 Surface water 0 0 1,566
Benton Charter Township Outside cities and towns 6,768 Surface water 0 0 33
Buchanan Buchanan 4,871 Groundwater 0 0 132
Lake Charter Township Stevensville 4,177 Surface water 0 0 0
Andrews University Outside cities and towns 3,000 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
New Buffalo Township New Buffalo 2,845 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Chikaming Township Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert and land outside it 2,825 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Watervliet Watervliet and Paw Paw Lake 2,735 Groundwater 1 0 11
Niles Township Niles 2,270 Groundwater 1 2 0
Bridgman Bridgman 2,096 Surface water 0 0 0
Berrien Springs Berrien Springs and land outside it 1,910 Groundwater 1 0 132
New Buffalo Michiana and New Buffalo and land outside them 1,900 Surface water 0 0 0
Three Oaks Three Oaks 1,622 Groundwater 0 0 2
Oronoko Township Outside cities and towns 1,610 Purchased groundwater 1 0 400
Coloma Coloma and Paw Paw Lake 1,555 Groundwater 0 0 0
Baroda Baroda 910 Purchased surface water 0 1 0
Eau Claire Eau Claire 610 Groundwater 1 0 0
Meadow Streams Estates Outside cities and towns 293 Groundwater 5 0 0
Grand Beach Grand Beach 272 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Ontario Place Outside cities and towns 248 Groundwater 0 0 0
Hills Haven Mobile Home Park Outside cities and towns 235 Groundwater 1 0 0
Riverside Estates Outside cities and towns 218 Groundwater 0 0 0
Country Acres Homeowners Association Outside cities and towns 180 Groundwater 0 0 0
Southtown MHP Outside cities and towns 160 Groundwater 1 0 0
Paw Paw Lake MH Park Paw Paw Lake 122 Groundwater 2 0 0
Sherwood Shores Condominiums Paw Paw Lake 90 Groundwater 2 0 0
Lake Michigan Beach Resort Pottawattamie Lake Michigan Beach 80 Groundwater 0 0 0
Lake Pointe Condominiums Paw Paw Lake 74 Groundwater 0 0 0
Country View Manor Condos Paw Paw Lake 62 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Berrien County

9 systems

EPA has no service area map for some of these systems, and the maps it has for the others do not line up with their own records. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Coloma Charter Township County on record 1,425 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Michiana County on record 182 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Beechwood Hills - Timber Ridge County on record 160 Groundwater 2 0 0
Chalet Du Paw Paw Condominiums County on record 95 Groundwater 0 0 0
Riverfront Condos of Niles County on record 90 Groundwater 0 1 0
Corewell Health-Berrien CNTR County on record 90 Groundwater 4 1 0
White Oaks Condominiums County on record 45 Groundwater 0 0 0
Riverbrooke Homeowners Association County on record 37 Groundwater 0 0 0
Sodus Township County on record 1 Purchased surface water 3 0 0

Cities and towns in Berrien County

21 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations