Northwoods Community, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Northwoods Community at a glance
Northwoods Community serves about 238 people through 97 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Shiawassee County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0040453; phone on file: 989-723-6913. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Northwoods Community's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northwoods Community is 3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 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. Northwoods Community's 3 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Michigan and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Shiawassee County
17 other systems share Shiawassee County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northwoods Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Owosso, City Of | 16,353 | 9 ppb |
| Durand, City Of | 3,446 | 3 ppb |
| Perry, City Of | 2,065 | 3 ppb |
| Corunna, City Of | 2,028 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bancroft, Village Of | 616 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Lothrop, Village Of | 610 | 2 ppb |
| Byron, Village Of | 581 | 2 ppb |
| Woods And Fields Communities East | 528 | - |
| Countryside Village | 490 | 1 ppb |
| Morrice Meadows | 258 | - |
Next steps for Owosso, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Owosso, 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 Northwoods Community 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.