Allegan County Services Center, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Allegan County Services Center
Allegan County Services Center serves about 101 people through 9 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Allegan County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0000125; phone on file: 269-673-0373. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Allegan County Services Center's lead record
That is down 23 ppb from 27 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Allegan County Services Center is 27 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 27 ppb over 15 |
Against other Michigan systems
Of the 1,227 Michigan systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 31 are over 15 ppb right now and 109 have gone over at some point. Allegan County Services Center's 4 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Michigan and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
44 other systems share Allegan County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Allegan County Services Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Allegan | 5,930 | 1.5 ppb |
| Kalamazoo Lake Sewer & Water Authority | 5,000 | 1.96 ppb |
| Wayland | 4,435 | 2.46 ppb |
| Otsego | 4,120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plainwell | 3,998 | 4 ppb |
| Fennville | 2,438 | - |
| Lake Doster | 1,492 | 0 (not detected) |
| Otsego Township | 1,133 | - |
| Martin | 785 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunters Glen | 700 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Allegan, MI may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Allegan County Services Center whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.