Is LANSING BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT's water safe to drink?
LANSING BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 166,000, over 56,159 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
7 total violations and 1 health-based ones put LANSING BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT at the 35th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,423 of 12,903.
How LANSING BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT compares within MI
LANSING BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT's 1 health-based violations sit within the MI average of 1.3, across 390 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for LANSING BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT is from 2022-05-02 (health-based: 1994-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LANSING BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is LANSING BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 7 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.