Meadow Woods N/R Center, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2022). 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.
Meadow Woods N/R Center at a glance
Meadow Woods N/R Center serves about 78 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Van Buren County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0060675; phone on file: 269-762-2969. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Meadow Woods N/R Center's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadow Woods N/R Center is 147 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 15.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 92 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 147 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 11 ppb over 10 |
How Meadow Woods N/R Center 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. Meadow Woods N/R Center's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Michigan and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Van Buren County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meadow Woods N/R Center. 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) |
| Lawrence | 1,045 | 2.36 ppb |
| Gobles | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bloomingdale, 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 Meadow Woods N/R Center 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.