Boyne Mountain Resort, MI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 26 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Boyne Mountain Resort at a glance
Boyne Mountain Resort serves about 950 people through 749 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Charlevoix County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0000815; phone on file: 231-549-7181. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 26 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Boyne Mountain Resort is 26 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 26 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 8 ppb |
How Boyne Mountain Resort 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. Boyne Mountain Resort's 26 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Michigan and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Charlevoix County
17 other systems share Charlevoix County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Boyne Mountain Resort. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Boyne City, City Of | 3,735 | 1 ppb |
| Charlevoix | 3,124 | - |
| East Jordan, City Of | 2,215 | 4 ppb |
| Charlevoix Township | 1,700 | 3 ppb |
| Walloon Lake Water System | 399 | 4 ppb |
| Boyne Falls, Village Of | 370 | - |
| Lake Michigan Heights | 270 | - |
| Melrose-Chandler Water, Llc | 261 | 25 ppb |
| Hemingway Pointe Club Owners Association | 250 | - |
| Wildwood On Walloon Association | 90 | 7 ppb |
Next steps for Boyne Falls, MI
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Boyne Mountain Resort 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.