St. Clair Shores, City Of, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
St. Clair Shores, City Of serves about 59,715 people through 25,367 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Macomb County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0006280; phone on file: 586-445-5363. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
St. Clair Shores, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St. Clair Shores, City Of is 21 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 11.57 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 14.55 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 17.62 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 10.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. St. Clair Shores, City Of's 1.1 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Michigan and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Macomb County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than St. Clair Shores, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warren, City Of | 134,056 | 2.7 ppb |
| Sterling Heights, City Of | 127,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clinton Township | 100,513 | 1.2 ppb |
| Macomb Township | 90,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shelby Township | 72,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roseville, City Of | 47,299 | 8.68 ppb |
| Chesterfield Township | 41,650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastpointe, City Of | 32,442 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrison Township | 24,314 | 1 ppb |
| Mount Clemens, City Of | 16,314 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for St. Clair Shores, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St. Clair Shores, 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 St. Clair Shores, City Of 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.