Franklin-Quincy Water Authority, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.13 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
About Franklin-Quincy Water Authority
Franklin-Quincy Water Authority serves about 260 people through 117 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Houghton County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0005585; phone on file: 906-231-3532. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Franklin-Quincy Water Authority's lead record
Against the period ending 2019 (0.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Franklin-Quincy Water Authority is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.13 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 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. Franklin-Quincy Water Authority's 0.13 ppb sits at the 37th percentile in Michigan and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Houghton County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Franklin-Quincy Water Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Houghton | 8,386 | 5.5 ppb |
| Upper Michigan Water Company | 5,535 | 1.6 ppb |
| Hancock | 4,500 | 1.1 ppb |
| Adams Township | 2,010 | - |
| Laurium | 1,947 | 0 (not detected) |
| Osceola Township | 1,391 | 3.6 ppb |
| Portage Township | 1,214 | 2.1 ppb |
| Lake Linden | 1,203 | 1.3 ppb |
| Torch Lake Township | 946 | 0.66 ppb |
| Chassell Township | 800 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for Hancock, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hancock, 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 Franklin-Quincy Water Authority 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.