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Baseline Mobile Home Park, MI

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.96 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. 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.

Baseline Mobile Home Park at a glance

Baseline Mobile Home Park serves about 188 people through 75 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Allegan County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0040005; phone on file: 616-292-7483. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Lead results over time

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Baseline Mobile Home Park is 3.96 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20243.96 ppb

Where this result ranks

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. Baseline Mobile Home Park's 3.96 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Michigan and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).

Other water systems in Allegan County

44 other systems share Allegan County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Baseline Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Allegan5,9301.5 ppb
Kalamazoo Lake Sewer & Water Authority5,0001.96 ppb
Wayland4,4352.46 ppb
Otsego4,1200 (not detected)
Plainwell3,9984 ppb
Fennville2,438-
Lake Doster1,4920 (not detected)
Otsego Township1,133-
Martin7850 (not detected)
Hunters Glen700-

Next steps for Grand Rapids, MI

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Grand Rapids, 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 Baseline Mobile Home Park 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.