Sandpiper Estates, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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 Sandpiper Estates
Sandpiper Estates serves about 215 people through 88 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sanilac County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0040447; phone on file: 810-359-8992. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sandpiper Estates is 2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 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. Sandpiper Estates's 2 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Michigan and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Sanilac County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sandpiper Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Worth Township | 3,854 | 0.3 ppb |
| Sandusky, City Of | 2,679 | 0 (not detected) |
| Croswell, City Of | 2,447 | 1 ppb |
| Marlette, City Of | 1,875 | 2 ppb |
| Brown City | 1,316 | 2 ppb |
| Lexington, Village Of | 1,025 | 2 ppb |
| Forester Township | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Forestville Village Of | 836 | 3 ppb |
| Deckerville, Village Of | 830 | 2 ppb |
| Sanilac Township | 674 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lexington, 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 Sandpiper Estates 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.