Mount Morris, City Of, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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 Mount Morris, City Of
Mount Morris, City Of serves about 3,086 people through 1,196 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 Genesee County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0004520; phone on file: 810-686-8380. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Mount Morris, City Of's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mount Morris, City Of is 4 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
How Mount Morris, City Of 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. Mount Morris, City Of's 4 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Michigan and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Genesee County
33 other systems share Genesee County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mount Morris, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Flint, City Of | 81,252 | 3 ppb |
| Genesee County Water System | 73,726 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burton, City Of | 21,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Charter Township Of Grand Blanc | 21,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fenton, City Of | 11,746 | 1 ppb |
| Beecher Metropolitan District | 9,400 | 3 ppb |
| Genesee Township | 8,473 | 0 (not detected) |
| Flushing, City Of | 8,311 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Blanc, City Of | 8,276 | 4 ppb |
| Swartz Creek, City Of | 5,800 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mt Morris, 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 Mount Morris, City Of 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.