Perry, City Of, 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.
About Perry, City Of
Perry, City Of serves about 2,065 people through 700 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 Shiawassee County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0005280; phone on file: 517-625-4500. 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 2 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Perry, City Of is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. Perry, City Of's 3 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Michigan and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Shiawassee County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Perry, City Of. 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 |
| 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 | - |
| Northwoods Community | 238 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Perry, 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 Perry, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2230 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.