The Porches, 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 The Porches
The Porches serves about 25 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Otsego County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0066700; phone on file: 989-350-7200. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Porches is 0 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
How The Porches 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. The Porches's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Michigan and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Otsego County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Porches. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gaylord, City Of | 3,629 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nottingham Forest Mhp | 185 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glen Meadows Condominiums | 142 | - |
| Treetops Resort (Treetops North) | 90 | 15 ppb |
| Beaver Creek Resort | 76 | 8 ppb |
| Lakeview Apartments | 64 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairway Lake Condominiums | 56 | - |
| West Park Apartments | 54 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunset Estates Gaylord | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
| Horsell Manor | 25 | - |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in The Porches'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 The Porches 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.