Howell, City Of, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Howell, City Of serves about 9,914 people through 2,893 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Livingston County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0003250; phone on file: 517-546-7510. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Howell, City Of is 1.2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Howell, City Of 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. Howell, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 33rd 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
42 other systems share Livingston County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Howell, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mhog Sewer & Water Authority | 17,046 | 1 ppb |
| Brighton, City Of | 10,210 | 1 ppb |
| Livingston Community Water Authority | 4,152 | 6 ppb |
| Hartland Township | 3,022 | 5 ppb |
| Fowlerville, Village Of | 2,951 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinckney, Village Of | 2,353 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Pointe | 2,000 | 1 ppb |
| Cidermill Crossings | 1,863 | 3 ppb |
| Fonda Lake Water Authority | 1,705 | 2 ppb |
| Hartland Meadows | 1,543 | - |
Next steps for Howell, MI
Look up your address in Howell, City Of'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 Howell, City Of 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.