Lake Doster, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Lake Doster serves about 1,492 people through 437 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Allegan County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0002925; phone on file: 269-685-9471. 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 Lake Doster is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Lake Doster's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Michigan and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
44 other systems share Allegan County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Doster. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Allegan | 5,930 | 1.5 ppb |
| Kalamazoo Lake Sewer & Water Authority | 5,000 | 1.96 ppb |
| Wayland | 4,435 | 2.46 ppb |
| Otsego | 4,120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plainwell | 3,998 | 4 ppb |
| Fennville | 2,438 | - |
| Otsego Township | 1,133 | - |
| Martin | 785 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunters Glen | 700 | - |
| Dorr-Leighton | 500 | 1.24 ppb |
Next steps for Plainwell, MI
Look up your address in Lake Doster'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 Lake Doster 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.