Bear Creek Villa, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Bear Creek Villa serves about 25 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 Ionia County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0000508. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bear Creek Villa is 11.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.68 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
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. Bear Creek Villa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Michigan and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Ionia County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bear Creek Villa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ionia | 11,708 | 5.12 ppb |
| Belding | 5,769 | 2 ppb |
| Portland | 3,883 | 3 ppb |
| Lake Odessa | 2,018 | 3 ppb |
| Saranac | 1,343 | 1.44 ppb |
| Lyons | 789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Muir | 604 | 1.8 ppb |
| Pewamo | 476 | 1 ppb |
| Sunset Ridge Mhc | 360 | 2.01 ppb |
| Canterbury Estates Mhp | 350 | 3.58 ppb |
Next steps for Clarksville, MI
Look up your address in Bear Creek Villa's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bear Creek Villa whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1940 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.