LeadPipesCheck

Otsego Township, MI

No lead results on file with EPA

Latest 90th-percentile lead: no result on file. The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. EPA's database has no Lead and Copper Rule results for this system. Without them there is nothing to go on, so a tap test is the only way to know.

About Otsego Township

Otsego Township serves about 1,133 people through 250 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 groundwater, in Allegan County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0005065; phone on file: 269-694-9434. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Neighbouring systems

44 other systems share Allegan County. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Allegan5,9301.5 ppb
Kalamazoo Lake Sewer & Water Authority5,0001.96 ppb
Wayland4,4352.46 ppb
Otsego4,1200 (not detected)
Plainwell3,9984 ppb
Fennville2,438-
Lake Doster1,4920 (not detected)
Martin7850 (not detected)
Hunters Glen700-
Dorr-Leighton5001.24 ppb

Your move

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Otsego, 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 Otsego 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.