Briley Township, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Briley Township serves about 435 people through 162 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Montmorency County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0000877; phone on file: 989-785-4050. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Briley Township's lead record
That is down 15 ppb from 17 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Briley Township is 17 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 17 ppb over 15 |
How Briley Township 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. Briley Township's 2 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Michigan and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Montmorency County
2 other systems share Montmorency County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Briley Township. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hillman, Village Of | 697 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Leaf Manor | 36 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Atlanta, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Atlanta, 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 Briley Township 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.