Village East Estates, MI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 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.
Who runs the water here
Village East Estates serves about 235 people through 94 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Allegan County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0040028; phone on file: 616-392-9200. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 92 ppb from 97 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village East Estates is 97 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 97 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. Village East Estates's 5 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Michigan and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Allegan County
44 other systems share Allegan County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village East Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Allegan | 5,930 | 1.5 ppb |
| Kalamazoo Lake Sewer & Water Authority | 5,000 | 1.96 ppb |
| Wayland | 4,435 | 2.46 ppb |
| Otsego | 4,120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plainwell | 3,998 | 4 ppb |
| Fennville | 2,438 | - |
| Lake Doster | 1,492 | 0 (not detected) |
| Otsego Township | 1,133 | - |
| Martin | 785 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunters Glen | 700 | - |
Next steps for Holland, MI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Holland, 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 Village East Estates 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.