Little Traverse Township, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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. 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.
Little Traverse Township at a glance
Little Traverse Township serves about 1,102 people through 423 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 Emmet County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0003927; phone on file: 231-526-0351. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Little Traverse Township is 1.2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.2 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. Little Traverse Township's 1.2 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Michigan and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Emmet County
37 other systems share Emmet County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Little Traverse Township. 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 |
| 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 |
| L'Arbre Croche Club | 330 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harbor Springs Area Authority | 303 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Harbor Springs, MI
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 Little Traverse Township 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.