Cottage Hs, Llc (Pineview Cottage), MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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.
Cottage Hs, Llc (Pineview Cottage) at a glance
Cottage Hs, Llc (Pineview Cottage) serves about 40 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Emmet County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0005349; phone on file: 989-327-7922. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cottage Hs, Llc (Pineview Cottage) is 30 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 30 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Cottage Hs, Llc (Pineview Cottage)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in Michigan and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Emmet County
37 other systems share Emmet County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cottage Hs, Llc (Pineview Cottage). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Petoskey, City Of | 8,979 | 2 ppb |
| Birchwood Farms | 1,227 | 2.8 ppb |
| Harbor Springs, City Of | 1,194 | 2 ppb |
| Little Traverse Township | 1,102 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bay View Association | 831 | 4.5 ppb |
| Trout Creek Condominiums | 492 | 8 ppb |
| Hidden Hamlet Association | 465 | 55 ppb |
| Highlands At Harbor Springs | 450 | 5 ppb |
| West Traverse Township | 414 | 1 ppb |
| L'Arbre Croche Club | 330 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Saginaw, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Saginaw, 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 Cottage Hs, Llc (Pineview Cottage) 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.