Midland Charter Township, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.59 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
About Midland Charter Township
Midland Charter Township serves about 1,348 people through 535 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Midland County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0004377; phone on file: 989-205-1172. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.39 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Midland Charter Township is 5.59 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.59 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 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. Midland Charter Township's 5.59 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Michigan and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Midland County
7 other systems share Midland County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Midland Charter Township. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Midland, City Of | 42,547 | 2.48 ppb |
| Midland Co., Water Dist. No. 1 Of | 11,000 | 3 ppb |
| Homer Township | 3,097 | 2.66 ppb |
| Larkin Township | 2,878 | 2.13 ppb |
| Coleman, City Of | 1,243 | 2 ppb |
| Mills Township | 450 | 8.37 ppb |
| Yoder Apartments | 90 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Midland, 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 Midland Charter Township 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.