General White Apartments, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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.
General White Apartments at a glance
General White Apartments serves about 50 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Van Buren County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0000796. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
General White Apartments's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for General White Apartments is 1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 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. General White Apartments's 1 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Michigan and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Van Buren County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than General White Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Haven Area Water & Sewer Authority | 8,914 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paw Paw | 3,362 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hartford | 2,688 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mattawan | 2,550 | 2.26 ppb |
| Bangor | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lawton | 1,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Decatur | 1,838 | 0 (not detected) |
| Covert Township | 1,805 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lawrence | 1,045 | 2.36 ppb |
| Gobles | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; East Lansing, 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 General White Apartments 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.