Michaels Ranch Water Users Association, AZ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Michaels Ranch Water Users Association serves about 54 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Yavapai County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0413109; phone on file: 928-634-9465. 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 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Michaels Ranch Water Users Association is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. Michaels Ranch Water Users Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Arizona and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
100 other systems share Yavapai County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Michaels Ranch Water Users Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Prescott Valley | 57,048 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prescott City Of | 42,217 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cottonwood Municipal Water Cw1 | 11,288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Big Park Water Company | 7,392 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Camp Verde Utilities | 5,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clarkdale Municipal Water System | 5,201 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cottonwood Municipal Water Vv6 | 4,518 | 18 ppb |
| Cordes Lakes Water Company | 4,425 | 4.1 ppb |
| Arizona Water Co - Rimrock | 3,532 | 0 (not detected) |
| Freeport Mcmoran Bagdad Town | 3,200 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Michaels Ranch Water Users Association'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 Michaels Ranch Water Users Association 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.