Pere Marquette Twp - Customer, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Pere Marquette Twp - Customer
Pere Marquette Twp - Customer serves about 339 people through 178 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Mason County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0005267; phone on file: 231-690-1707. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pere Marquette Twp - Customer is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Pere Marquette Twp - Customer's 5 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Michigan and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mason County
7 other systems share Mason County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pere Marquette Twp - Customer. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ludington | 8,184 | 1.4 ppb |
| Scottville, City Of | 1,536 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tamarac Village | 873 | - |
| Pere Marquette Twp - Wells | 455 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holiday Village Mobile Home Park | 185 | 2 ppb |
| Manistee Forest Pines Estates | 174 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tall Oaks Condominums | 65 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ludington, 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 Pere Marquette Twp - Customer 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.