Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief at a glance
Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief serves about 40 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small 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: MI0006568; phone on file: 231-587-0744. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 3 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. Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief's 1 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Michigan and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Antrim County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mancelona Area Water And Sewer Authority | 3,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mancelona, 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 Mancelona Area Wsa - The Chief 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.