Kent Ridge Apartments, MI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 36.1 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Kent Ridge Apartments
Kent Ridge Apartments serves about 120 people through 64 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kent County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0003615; phone on file: 616-696-9678. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kent Ridge Apartments is 36.1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 36.1 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Kent Ridge Apartments's 36.1 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Michigan and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Kent County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kent Ridge Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Rapids | 306,901 | 6.98 ppb |
| Wyoming | 76,501 | 1.7 ppb |
| Plainfield Township | 42,271 | 1.5 ppb |
| Byron-Gaines Utility Authority | 37,464 | 1.6 ppb |
| Kentwood | 36,072 | 2.99 ppb |
| Grandville | 15,948 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Grand Rapids | 11,637 | 10.1 ppb |
| Ada Township | 7,584 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockford | 7,160 | 0 (not detected) |
| Caledonia Township | 4,573 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Kent Ridge Apartments 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.