L'Arbre Croche Club, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
L'Arbre Croche Club at a glance
L'Arbre Croche Club serves about 330 people through 110 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: MI0003685; phone on file: 231-675-9133. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 13 ppb from 13 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for L'Arbre Croche Club is 17 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 17 ppb over 15 |
How L'Arbre Croche Club compares
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. L'Arbre Croche Club's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Michigan and the 19th 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 L'Arbre Croche Club. 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 |
| Harbor Springs Area Authority | 303 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Harbor Springs, 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 L'Arbre Croche Club 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.