Royal View Retirement Village, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.62 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.
Royal View Retirement Village at a glance
Royal View Retirement Village serves about 80 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Mecosta County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0005841; phone on file: 231-972-6600. 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 down 2.38 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Royal View Retirement Village is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.62 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Royal View Retirement Village compares
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. Royal View Retirement Village's 0.62 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Michigan and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Mecosta County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Royal View Retirement Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Big Rapids | 10,403 | 2 ppb |
| Sunset Shores | 200 | 1.28 ppb |
| Remus Apartment Company | 100 | - |
| Holiday Terrace | 90 | 5 ppb |
| Haven View Mobile Court | 75 | 2 ppb |
| Parks Place Estates | 72 | 0.56 ppb |
| Tullymore Clubhouse And Camelot Village | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roseville Apartments | 32 | 0 (not detected) |
| T.J. White Pine Manor Apartments | 32 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mecosta, 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 Royal View Retirement Village 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.