Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
About Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority
Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority serves about 3,900 people through 1,300 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Antrim County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0004010; phone on file: 231-587-0744. 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 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority is 4 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 30th percentile in Michigan and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Antrim County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elk Rapids, Village Of | 1,642 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shanty Creek - Watars Association | 1,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bellaire, Village Of | 1,086 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central Lake, Village Of | 952 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ellsworth, Village Of | 349 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadowbrook Med Care Facility | 154 | 375 ppb |
| Sunset Torch Association | 84 | - |
| Maplewood Ridge Condominiums | 80 | - |
| Bay Harbor Club | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief | 40 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Mancelona, MI
Look up your address in Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority'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 Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority 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.