Hope Network - West Lake- Facility, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Hope Network - West Lake- Facility serves about 48 people through 8 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ionia County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0003228; phone on file: 616-450-5379. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 28 ppb from 31.8 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hope Network - West Lake- Facility is 31.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 31.8 ppb over 15 |
How Hope Network - West Lake- Facility compares
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. Hope Network - West Lake- Facility's 3.8 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Michigan and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Ionia County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Hope Network - West Lake- Facility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ionia | 11,708 | 5.12 ppb |
| Belding | 5,769 | 2 ppb |
| Portland | 3,883 | 3 ppb |
| Lake Odessa | 2,018 | 3 ppb |
| Saranac | 1,343 | 1.44 ppb |
| Lyons | 789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Muir | 604 | 1.8 ppb |
| Pewamo | 476 | 1 ppb |
| Sunset Ridge Mhc | 360 | 2.01 ppb |
| Canterbury Estates Mhp | 350 | 3.58 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Grand Rapids, 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 Hope Network - West Lake- Facility 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.