Nazarene Camp, MI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 19.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Nazarene Camp serves about 648 people through 259 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0004647; phone on file: 269-649-2281. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 19.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nazarene Camp is 19.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 19.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
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. Nazarene Camp's 19.5 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Michigan and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Kalamazoo County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nazarene Camp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo | 192,992 | 4 ppb |
| Portage | 46,292 | 1.8 ppb |
| Vicksburg | 2,906 | - |
| Galesburg | 2,377 | 2.9 ppb |
| Augusta | 885 | 0 (not detected) |
| Climax | 767 | 3 ppb |
| Royal Estates | 380 | 1.78 ppb |
| Climax Mobile Home Park | 198 | - |
| Evergreen Park | 190 | 1 ppb |
| The Bluffs At Gull Lake | 180 | - |
Your move
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 Nazarene Camp 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.