Spring Lake, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2020-2022). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Spring Lake at a glance
Spring Lake serves about 2,512 people through 1,163 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 surface water, in Ottawa County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0006230; phone on file: 616-846-2422. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Spring Lake's lead record
Against the period ending 2019 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Spring Lake is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
How Spring Lake 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. Spring Lake's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Michigan and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Ottawa County
23 other systems share Ottawa County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Spring Lake. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Holland Board Of Public Works | 49,687 | 1.22 ppb |
| Georgetown Township | 41,086 | 2 ppb |
| Holland Township Consolidated | 26,100 | 2.1 ppb |
| Allendale Township | 19,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Haven Township | 15,051 | 0.86 ppb |
| Grand Haven | 10,412 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Lake Township | 9,393 | 1.78 ppb |
| Zeeland Board Of Public Works | 8,328 | 0.1 ppb |
| Hudsonville | 7,708 | 2.5 ppb |
| Coopersville | 4,519 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Spring Lake's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Spring Lake 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.