Is Okemos, MI tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 4 utilities serving Okemos has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records: Michigan State University.
Meridian Township, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 19.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. A health benchmark is a level EPA screens with, not a legal limit.
A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Okemos’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Meridian Township
Michigan · serves 25,600 people · about 14,000 in Okemos
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 19.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of East Lansing
Michigan · serves 33,000 people · about 1,800 in Okemos
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 17.5 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Michigan State University
Michigan · serves 12,793 people · about 730 in Okemos
1 result above the action level, 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Copper at 1.5 ppm, above the action level.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Lansing Board of Water & Light
Michigan · serves 166,000 people · about 130 in Okemos
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 19.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Okemos
The 3 labs Michigan certifies closest to Okemos, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Merit Laboratories, Inc.
East Lansing, MI · about 3 miles
Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS
Metiri Group-Holt Formerly Fibertec
Holt, MI · about 9 miles
Certified for PFAS
EGLE Laboratory Services
Lansing, MI · about 9 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity
Which ZIP codes are in Okemos: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: EGLE, State of Michigan certified drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.
Near Okemos
Towns nearby with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Meridian Township’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- About LithiumWhat it does to health, where it comes from, and the certification claim that addresses it.About Lithium
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water