Grand Haven, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Grand Haven at a glance
Grand Haven serves about 10,412 people through 4,836 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 Ottawa County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0002750; phone on file: 616-847-4888. 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 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Grand Haven is 1.38 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.38 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Grand Haven's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 34th percentile in Michigan and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Ottawa County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Grand Haven. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Holland Board Of Public Works | 49,687 | 1.22 ppb |
| Georgetown Township | 41,086 | 2 ppb |
| Holland Township Consolidated | 26,100 | 2.1 ppb |
| Allendale Township | 19,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Haven Township | 15,051 | 0.86 ppb |
| Spring Lake Township | 9,393 | 1.78 ppb |
| Zeeland Board Of Public Works | 8,328 | 0.1 ppb |
| Hudsonville | 7,708 | 2.5 ppb |
| Coopersville | 4,519 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jamestown Township | 3,330 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Grand Haven'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 Grand Haven 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.