Interlochen Center For The Arts, MI
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Interlochen Center For The Arts
Interlochen Center For The Arts serves about 750 people through 43 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0003365; phone on file: 231-276-7356. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Interlochen Center For The Arts is 11 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11 ppb over 10 |
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. Interlochen Center For The Arts's 11 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Michigan and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Grand Traverse County
20 other systems share Grand Traverse County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Interlochen Center For The Arts. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Traverse City | 14,532 | 4 ppb |
| Garfield Charter Township | 12,899 | 2 ppb |
| East Bay Charter Township | 3,720 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blair Township | 2,788 | 3 ppb |
| Peninsula Township | 1,790 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kingsley, Village Of | 1,657 | - |
| Kings Court Mobile Home Park | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edge 72 | 288 | 3 ppb |
| Acme Township - Hope Village | 128 | 0 (not detected) |
| Black Bear Farms | 110 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Interlochen, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Interlochen, 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 Interlochen Center For The Arts 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.