Huguenot Estates East, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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. 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.
Huguenot Estates East at a glance
Huguenot Estates East serves about 475 people through 166 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, Michigan. EPA system ID: NY3501327; phone on file: 845-856-4545. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Huguenot Estates East's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Huguenot Estates East is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 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. Huguenot Estates East's 3 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Michigan and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
1 other system shares Orange County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Huguenot Estates East. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Valley Mhp, The | 98 | 0.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
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 Huguenot Estates East 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.