Kalchik Estates, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
About Kalchik Estates
Kalchik Estates serves about 147 people through 51 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Emmet County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0003545; phone on file: 231-330-8946. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Kalchik Estates's lead record
That is down 4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kalchik Estates is 4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 4 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. Kalchik Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Michigan and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Emmet County
37 other systems share Emmet County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kalchik Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Petoskey, City Of | 8,979 | 2 ppb |
| Birchwood Farms | 1,227 | 2.8 ppb |
| Harbor Springs, City Of | 1,194 | 2 ppb |
| Little Traverse Township | 1,102 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bay View Association | 831 | 4.5 ppb |
| Trout Creek Condominiums | 492 | 8 ppb |
| Hidden Hamlet Association | 465 | 55 ppb |
| Highlands At Harbor Springs | 450 | 5 ppb |
| West Traverse Township | 414 | 1 ppb |
| L'Arbre Croche Club | 330 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Petoskey, MI
Look up your address in Kalchik Estates'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 Kalchik 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.