Hidden Creek Estates, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.8 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.
Hidden Creek Estates at a glance
Hidden Creek Estates serves about 318 people through 169 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Allegan County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0040682; phone on file: 248-626-0737. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hidden Creek Estates's lead record
That is up 2.8 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hidden Creek Estates is 5.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 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. Hidden Creek Estates's 5.8 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Michigan and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Allegan County
44 other systems share Allegan County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hidden Creek Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Allegan | 5,930 | 1.5 ppb |
| Kalamazoo Lake Sewer & Water Authority | 5,000 | 1.96 ppb |
| Wayland | 4,435 | 2.46 ppb |
| Otsego | 4,120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plainwell | 3,998 | 4 ppb |
| Fennville | 2,438 | - |
| Lake Doster | 1,492 | 0 (not detected) |
| Otsego Township | 1,133 | - |
| Martin | 785 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunters Glen | 700 | - |
Next steps for Farmington Hills, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Farmington Hills, 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 Hidden Creek Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.