Medilodge Of Sterling, MI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 888 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Medilodge Of Sterling at a glance
Medilodge Of Sterling serves about 39 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 Arenac County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0062841; phone on file: 989-654-2496. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 877 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Medilodge Of Sterling is 888 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 4 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 888 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
| 2022 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 8 ppb |
| 2020 | 161 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 6 ppb |
| 2017 | 7 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 74 ppb over 15 |
Against other Michigan systems
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. Medilodge Of Sterling's 888 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Michigan and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Arenac County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Medilodge Of Sterling. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sims-Whitney Utilities Auth. | 5,815 | 2.14 ppb |
| Standish, City Of | 1,509 | 4.1 ppb |
| Au Gres, City Of | 945 | 4 ppb |
| Standish Township | 430 | - |
| Omer, City Of | 279 | 9 ppb |
| Au Gres Township | 66 | 2 ppb |
| Northern Country Estates | 53 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saginaw-Midland Water Supply | 1 | - |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Medilodge Of Sterling 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.