V F W National Home, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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.
About V F W National Home
V F W National Home serves about 150 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ingham County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0006792; phone on file: 517-663-7878. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
V F W National Home's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for V F W National Home is 24 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 24 ppb over 15 |
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. V F W National Home's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Michigan and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Ingham County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than V F W National Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lansing Board Of Water & Light | 166,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Lansing, City Of | 33,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meridian Township | 25,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Michigan State University | 12,793 | 2 ppb |
| Mason, City Of | 8,252 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lansing Township | 5,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Williamston, City Of | 3,917 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leslie, City Of | 1,872 | 6 ppb |
| Webberville, Village Of | 1,503 | 1 ppb |
| Stockbridge, Village Of | 1,252 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eaton Rapids, 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 V F W National Home 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.