Byron, Village Of, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Byron, Village Of at a glance
Byron, Village Of serves about 581 people through 200 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 Shiawassee County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0001020; phone on file: 810-266-6160. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Byron, Village Of is 2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 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. Byron, Village Of's 2 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Michigan and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Shiawassee County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Byron, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Owosso, City Of | 16,353 | 9 ppb |
| Durand, City Of | 3,446 | 3 ppb |
| Perry, City Of | 2,065 | 3 ppb |
| Corunna, City Of | 2,028 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bancroft, Village Of | 616 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Lothrop, Village Of | 610 | 2 ppb |
| Woods And Fields Communities East | 528 | - |
| Countryside Village | 490 | 1 ppb |
| Morrice Meadows | 258 | - |
| Northwoods Community | 238 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Byron, 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 Byron, 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.