King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (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. 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.
About King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community
King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community serves about 61 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Roscommon County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0063635; phone on file: 989-422-5153. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2019 (4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community is 4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
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. King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community's 3 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Michigan and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Roscommon County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Roscommon, Village Of | 1,075 | 1.7 ppb |
| Sandhill Manor | 148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brook Of Houghton Lake | 105 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeshore East Condominiums | 84 | - |
| Country Village Apartments | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deerfield Villa | 72 | - |
| Emery Pines | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
| Houghton Heights Manor | 50 | - |
| Sandyoak Rv Resort | 50 | - |
| Houghton Lake Timber Apts. | 48 | - |
Next steps for Houghton Lake, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Houghton Lake, 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 King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.