East Grand Rapids, MI
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
East Grand Rapids at a glance
East Grand Rapids serves about 11,637 people through 3,888 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Kent County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0001960; phone on file: 616-940-4884. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
East Grand Rapids's lead record
That is up 3.98 ppb from 6.12 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Grand Rapids is 10.1 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 6.12 ppb |
| 2023 | 9.55 ppb |
| 2022 | 8.84 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.59 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.36 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.62 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. East Grand Rapids's 10.1 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Michigan and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Kent County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than East Grand Rapids. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Rapids | 306,901 | 6.98 ppb |
| Wyoming | 76,501 | 1.7 ppb |
| Plainfield Township | 42,271 | 1.5 ppb |
| Byron-Gaines Utility Authority | 37,464 | 1.6 ppb |
| Kentwood | 36,072 | 2.99 ppb |
| Grandville | 15,948 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ada Township | 7,584 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockford | 7,160 | 0 (not detected) |
| Caledonia Township | 4,573 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lowell | 4,150 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; East Grand Rapids, 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 East Grand Rapids 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.