Woods And Fields Communities West, MI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 135 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Woods And Fields Communities West
Woods And Fields Communities West serves about 185 people through 74 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Shiawassee County, Michigan. EPA system ID: MI0040455; phone on file: 989-723-6913. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woods And Fields Communities West is 135 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 135 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. Woods And Fields Communities West's 135 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Michigan and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Shiawassee County
17 other systems share Shiawassee County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woods And Fields Communities West. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Owosso, City Of | 16,353 | 9 ppb |
| Durand, City Of | 3,446 | 3 ppb |
| Perry, City Of | 2,065 | 3 ppb |
| Corunna, City Of | 2,028 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bancroft, Village Of | 616 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Lothrop, Village Of | 610 | 2 ppb |
| Byron, Village Of | 581 | 2 ppb |
| Woods And Fields Communities East | 528 | - |
| Countryside Village | 490 | 1 ppb |
| Morrice Meadows | 258 | - |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Woods And Fields Communities West whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3770 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.