Bruce Township, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
About Bruce Township
Bruce Township serves about 115 people through 132 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 surface water, in Macomb County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0000951; phone on file: 586-258-7050. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bruce Township is 3.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
Against other Michigan systems
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. Bruce Township's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Michigan and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Macomb County
25 other systems share Macomb County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bruce Township. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warren, City Of | 134,056 | 2.7 ppb |
| Sterling Heights, City Of | 127,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clinton Township | 100,513 | 1.2 ppb |
| Macomb Township | 90,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shelby Township | 72,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Clair Shores, City Of | 59,715 | 1.1 ppb |
| Roseville, City Of | 47,299 | 8.68 ppb |
| Chesterfield Township | 41,650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastpointe, City Of | 32,442 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrison Township | 24,314 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Bruce Township'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 Bruce 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. 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.