Sunset Shores, MI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.28 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.
Who runs the water here
Sunset Shores serves about 200 people through 80 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: MI0040653; phone on file: 248-865-0066. 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 Sunset Shores is 1.28 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.28 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Sunset Shores's 1.28 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Michigan and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Mecosta County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunset Shores. 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 |
| Remus Apartment Company | 100 | - |
| Holiday Terrace | 90 | 5 ppb |
| Royal View Retirement Village | 80 | 0.62 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Farmington Hills, 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 Sunset Shores 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.