Bellevue, Village Of, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 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.
Bellevue, Village Of at a glance
Bellevue, Village Of serves about 1,282 people through 475 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Eaton County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0000590. 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 Bellevue, Village Of is 6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
How Bellevue, Village Of 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. Bellevue, Village Of's 6 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Michigan and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Eaton County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bellevue, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Charter Township Of Delta | 21,856 | 1.2 ppb |
| Charlotte, City Of | 9,074 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Ledge, City Of | 8,701 | 1 ppb |
| Eaton Rapids, City Of | 5,340 | 4 ppb |
| Potterville, City Of | 2,617 | 2 ppb |
| Olivet, City Of | 1,758 | 1 ppb |
| Vermontville, Village Of | 780 | 1 ppb |
| Windsor Estates | 718 | 2 ppb |
| Sunfield, Village Of | 680 | 2 ppb |
| Eaton Green Estates Subdivision | 363 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Bellevue, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bellevue, 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 Bellevue, Village Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.