Argentine Care Center, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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 Argentine Care Center
Argentine Care Center serves about 60 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Genesee County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0066355; phone on file: 810-735-9487. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Argentine Care Center's lead record
That is down 6 ppb from 9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Argentine Care Center is 9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
How Argentine Care Center compares
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. Argentine Care Center's 3 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Michigan and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Genesee County
33 other systems share Genesee County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Argentine Care Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Flint, City Of | 81,252 | 3 ppb |
| Genesee County Water System | 73,726 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burton, City Of | 21,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Charter Township Of Grand Blanc | 21,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fenton, City Of | 11,746 | 1 ppb |
| Beecher Metropolitan District | 9,400 | 3 ppb |
| Genesee Township | 8,473 | 0 (not detected) |
| Flushing, City Of | 8,311 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Blanc, City Of | 8,276 | 4 ppb |
| Swartz Creek, City Of | 5,800 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Linden, 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 Argentine Care 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.