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Blue Spruce Apartments

At a glance

Blue Spruce Apartments (PWSID MI0000794) is an active community water system in Ionia County, Michigan. It reports serving 96 people through 48 service connections. Its primary water source is groundwater, and EPA lists it as privately owned. EPA's records list 10 violations for this system; 1 is health-based, and the most recent began in October 2025.

Dataset updated October 2026 . Source: EPA SDWIS/ECHO public records.

Population served

Service connections

Primary source

Groundwater

System type

CWS

Community water system

System record

PWSIDMI0000794

System typeCommunity water system

Activity statusActive

Population served96

Service connections48

Primary water sourceGroundwater

Owner typePrivate

Primacy agencyMI state drinking water program

City servedPortland

StateMichigan

ZIP—

CountyIonia County

How does Blue Spruce Apartments compare with other water systems in Ionia County?

By EPA's size categories, Blue Spruce Apartments is a very small system (500 people or fewer). Ionia County has 123 active public water systems. Its population served is well below the county average of 376 people per system, and accounts for 0.2% of the 46,250 people reported by systems filed under the county. Across Michigan, the 10,599 active systems average 847 people each. Nationally, the average active community water system reports serving 6,703 people, so Blue Spruce Apartments is well below that figure.

What does “community water system” mean?

A community water system serves at least 15 connections used by year-round residents, or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents. Homes, apartments and mobile-home parks are served by these. Michigan has 1,332 active community water systems, 13% of the state's 10,599 active systems. Groundwater means the system draws its water from wells or springs fed by underground aquifers. 10,214 Michigan systems (96%) list groundwater as their primary source.

Who owns and regulates Blue Spruce Apartments?

EPA lists Blue Spruce Apartments as privately owned. The MI state drinking water program is its primacy agency, the regulator with primary enforcement responsibility for the system under the Safe Drinking Water Act. 106 of the 123 active systems in Ionia County (86%) are also privately owned.

Does Blue Spruce Apartments have drinking water violations?

EPA's records list 10 violations for this system; 1 is health-based, and the most recent began in October 2025. The violations listed here began between January 2017 and October 2025. By type: 4 monitoring and reporting, 3 reporting, 2 public notice, recordkeeping or other and 1 required treatment not met. The contaminant or rule involved most often is Lead and Copper Rule (3 of them). EPA lists 10 as resolved. Resolved means at least one resolving action is on record: the system returned to compliance, the rule no longer applies, or no further action was needed.

Began	Violation	Contaminant or rule	Health-based	Status
2025-10-11	ReportingReport Sample Result/Fail Monitor (RTCR) · code 4B	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2024-10-17	ReportingLSL Reporting · code 4G	Lead and Copper Rule Revisionscode 5200	No	Resolved
2024-10-17	Required treatment not metLSL Inventory · code 2E	Lead and Copper Rule Revisionscode 5200	Yes	Resolved
2022-07-01	Public notice, recordkeeping or otherConsumer Confidence Report Complete Failure to Report · code 71	Consumer Confidence Rulecode 7000	No	Resolved
2022-01-01	Monitoring and reportingMonitoring, Regular · code 03	Combined Radium (-226 and -228)code 4010	No	Resolved
2021-10-11	Monitoring and reportingFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R · code 52	Lead and Copper Rulecode 5000	No	Resolved
2020-07-01	Public notice, recordkeeping or otherConsumer Confidence Report Complete Failure to Report · code 71	Consumer Confidence Rulecode 7000	No	Resolved
2018-06-01	ReportingReport Sample Result/Fail Monitor (RTCR) · code 4B	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2018-01-11	Monitoring and reportingFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R · code 52	Lead and Copper Rulecode 5000	No	Resolved
2017-01-01	Monitoring and reportingWater Quality Parameter M/R · code 53	Lead and Copper Rulecode 5000	No	Resolved

All 10 violations in EPA's records, newest first.Labels and codes come from EPA's SDWIS reference tables. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was missed or late; it does not by itself mean a contaminant was found. "Health-based" marks violations of a legal limit or required treatment.

Blue Spruce Apartments: frequently asked questions

Who runs Blue Spruce Apartments?

Blue Spruce Apartments (PWSID MI0000794) is a community water system privately owned. It is regulated by the MI state drinking water program.

How many people does Blue Spruce Apartments serve?

Blue Spruce Apartments reports serving 96 people through 48 service connections in Ionia County, Michigan.

Where does Blue Spruce Apartments get its water?

EPA SDWIS lists this system's primary water source as groundwater. Groundwater means the system draws its water from wells or springs fed by underground aquifers.

Does Blue Spruce Apartments have any drinking water violations?

EPA's records list 10 violations for this system; 1 is health-based, and the most recent began in October 2025. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was missed or late; it does not by itself mean a contaminant was found.

Is Blue Spruce Apartments' water safe to drink?

AquaCensus shows EPA compliance records, not current water test results, so it cannot say whether the water is safe at a given moment. EPA's records list 10 violations for this system; 1 is health-based, and the most recent began in October 2025. For current results, consult the system's annual water quality report, EPA ECHO, or the MI state drinking water program.

Where can I find Blue Spruce Apartments' water quality report?

As a community water system, Blue Spruce Apartments must deliver an annual water quality report, called a Consumer Confidence Report, to its customers by July 1 each year, covering the previous calendar year. The system can provide a copy on request.

Other water systems in Ionia County

Water system	County	Population served	Type	Source
Ionia	Ionia	11,708	Community	Groundwater
Belding	Ionia	5,769	Community	Groundwater
Portland	Ionia	3,883	Community	Groundwater
Lake Odessa	Ionia	2,018	Community	Groundwater
1-9 Pilot LLC	Ionia	1,522	Transient non-community	Groundwater
Saranac	Ionia	1,343	Community	Groundwater

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About this data

Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) and SDWA violation records, via EPA ECHO, as published October 1, 2026 — AquaCensus refreshes it quarterly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.

Cite as: AquaCensus, “Blue Spruce Apartments, PWSID MI0000794, Michigan”, https://aquacensus.com/water-systems/michigan/blue-spruce-apartments-mi0000794 (data as of October 1, 2026).