Apple Carr Village, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.45 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Apple Carr Village
Apple Carr Village serves about 1,125 people through 529 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Muskegon County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0040355. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Apple Carr Village is 1.45 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.45 ppb |
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. Apple Carr Village's 1.45 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Michigan and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Muskegon County
23 other systems share Muskegon County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Apple Carr Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Muskegon | 37,213 | 5.4 ppb |
| Norton Shores | 23,994 | 2.1 ppb |
| Muskegon Heights | 9,917 | 2.8 ppb |
| Fruitport Township | 9,355 | 11.7 ppb |
| Muskegon Co Eastside Water System | 7,135 | 4.1 ppb |
| Musk Co Northside Water System | 5,133 | 2 ppb |
| Roosevelt Park | 4,172 | 1.9 ppb |
| North Muskegon | 3,786 | 6.5 ppb |
| Whitehall | 2,902 | 2 ppb |
| Montague | 2,479 | 3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Southfield, 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 Apple Carr Village 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.