Emery Pines, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Emery Pines
Emery Pines serves about 50 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Roscommon County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0002124; phone on file: 989-426-0986. 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 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Emery Pines is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Emery Pines'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 Roscommon County
13 other systems share Roscommon County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Emery Pines. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Roscommon, Village Of | 1,075 | 1.7 ppb |
| Sandhill Manor | 148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brook Of Houghton Lake | 105 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeshore East Condominiums | 84 | - |
| Country Village Apartments | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deerfield Villa | 72 | - |
| King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community | 61 | 3 ppb |
| Houghton Heights Manor | 50 | - |
| Sandyoak Rv Resort | 50 | - |
| Houghton Lake Timber Apts. | 48 | - |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Emery Pines'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 Emery Pines 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.