Crystal Highlands Subdivision, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Crystal Highlands Subdivision
Crystal Highlands Subdivision serves about 50 people through 25 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Benzie County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0001715; phone on file: 248-330-7860. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Crystal Highlands Subdivision's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crystal Highlands Subdivision is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
How Crystal Highlands Subdivision 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. Crystal Highlands Subdivision's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Michigan and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Benzie County
9 other systems share Benzie County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crystal Highlands Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Frankfort, City Of | 1,286 | - |
| Crystal Mountain Resort & Spa | 700 | 3 ppb |
| Benzonia Village Of | 511 | 1 ppb |
| Thompsonville, Village Of | 438 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beulah, Village Of | 380 | 8 ppb |
| Elberta, Village Of | 372 | - |
| Crystal Ridge Condominium Association | 80 | - |
| Buena Vista Estates | 79 | 1 ppb |
| Buttercup Shores | 40 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Crystal Highlands Subdivision'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 Crystal Highlands Subdivision 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.