Lawrence, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.36 ppb (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.
Who runs the water here
Lawrence serves about 1,045 people through 391 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 Van Buren County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0003820; phone on file: 269-674-8161. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.61 ppb from 3.97 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lawrence is 31 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.36 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.97 ppb |
| 2020 | 31 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 24 ppb over 15 |
How Lawrence 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. Lawrence's 2.36 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Michigan and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Van Buren County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lawrence. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Haven Area Water & Sewer Authority | 8,914 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paw Paw | 3,362 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hartford | 2,688 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mattawan | 2,550 | 2.26 ppb |
| Bangor | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lawton | 1,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Decatur | 1,838 | 0 (not detected) |
| Covert Township | 1,805 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gobles | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Holiday Estates | 148 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lawrence, 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 Lawrence 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.