Hale Homestead Apartments, MI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 31 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Hale Homestead Apartments
Hale Homestead Apartments serves about 72 people through 4 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Iosco County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0002943; phone on file: 989-739-3631. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 26 ppb from 57 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hale Homestead Apartments is 57 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 57 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 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. Hale Homestead Apartments's 31 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Michigan and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Iosco County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hale Homestead Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oscoda Township | 6,997 | 3 ppb |
| East Tawas, City Of | 2,663 | 1 ppb |
| Au Sable Township | 2,370 | 2 ppb |
| Tawas City, City Of | 1,834 | 4 ppb |
| Baldwin Township | 650 | 1 ppb |
| Alabaster Township | 86 | 1.68 ppb |
| Hale Creek Manor | 43 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whittemore Square Apartments | 30 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northern Pines | 13 | 18 ppb |
| Huron Shore Regional Utility Authority | 1 | - |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hale Homestead 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.