Swan Creek Township, MI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
About Swan Creek Township
Swan Creek Township serves about 2,023 people through 953 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 Saginaw County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0006502; phone on file: 989-865-6251. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Swan Creek Township's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Swan Creek Township is 1.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 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. Swan Creek Township's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Michigan and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Saginaw County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Swan Creek Township. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Saginaw, City Of | 44,058 | 9 ppb |
| Saginaw Charter Township | 40,840 | 1.6 ppb |
| Thomas Township | 11,931 | 1.7 ppb |
| Bridgeport Township | 10,104 | 1.9 ppb |
| Tittabawassee Township | 9,227 | 1.8 ppb |
| Buena Vista Township | 8,676 | 2.5 ppb |
| Carrollton Township | 5,705 | 2 ppb |
| Frankenmuth, City Of | 4,944 | 2.5 ppb |
| Kochville Township | 4,695 | 2.5 ppb |
| Blumfield-Reese Water Auth. | 3,024 | 2.7 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Swan Creek Township'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 Swan Creek Township 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.