Thornapple Manor, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Thornapple Manor at a glance
Thornapple Manor serves about 328 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Barry County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0060425; phone on file: 269-945-1315. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Thornapple Manor is 36 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 36 ppb over 15 |
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. Thornapple Manor's 3 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Michigan and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Barry County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Thornapple Manor. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hastings | 7,514 | 3 ppb |
| Middleville | 3,309 | 2.87 ppb |
| Nashville | 1,628 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yankee Springs Township | 660 | 4 ppb |
| Thornapple Lake Estates | 538 | 0 (not detected) |
| Freeport | 483 | 1.78 ppb |
| Mcti | 460 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barry Township | 260 | 1 ppb |
| Gun Lake Mobile Home Community | 148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barry'S Resort | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Hastings, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hastings, 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 Thornapple Manor whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1470 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.