Sims-Whitney Utilities Auth., MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.14 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Sims-Whitney Utilities Auth. at a glance
Sims-Whitney Utilities Auth. serves about 5,815 people through 1,731 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Arenac County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0006073; phone on file: 989-362-8441. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (3.12 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sims-Whitney Utilities Auth. is 20 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.14 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.12 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.78 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.37 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.34 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2018 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 4 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. Sims-Whitney Utilities Auth.'s 2.14 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Michigan and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Arenac County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sims-Whitney Utilities Auth.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Standish, City Of | 1,509 | 4.1 ppb |
| Au Gres, City Of | 945 | 4 ppb |
| Standish Township | 430 | - |
| Omer, City Of | 279 | 9 ppb |
| Au Gres Township | 66 | 2 ppb |
| Northern Country Estates | 53 | 0 (not detected) |
| Medilodge Of Sterling | 39 | 888 ppb |
| Saginaw-Midland Water Supply | 1 | - |
Next steps for Tawas City, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tawas City, 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 Sims-Whitney Utilities Auth. 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.