Ashwaubenon Waterworks, WI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.4 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Ashwaubenon Waterworks
Ashwaubenon Waterworks serves about 17,730 people through 6,566 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Brown County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI4050456. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.1 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ashwaubenon Waterworks is 3.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.6 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 947 Wisconsin systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.33 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 71 have gone over at some point. Ashwaubenon Waterworks's 3.4 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Wisconsin and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Brown County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Ashwaubenon Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Green Bay Waterworks | 107,369 | 2.5 ppb |
| De Pere Waterworks Sa 1 | 25,660 | 0.66 ppb |
| Howard Waterworks | 21,133 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bellevue Waterworks | 16,715 | 2.7 ppb |
| Allouez Waterworks | 13,923 | 5.9 ppb |
| Ledgeview Tn Sanitary Dist 2 | 7,602 | 2.1 ppb |
| Lawrence Waterworks | 5,398 | 0 (not detected) |
| Suamico Waterworks | 4,697 | 1.1 ppb |
| Pulaski Waterworks | 4,040 | 0.81 ppb |
| Wrightstown Waterworks | 3,815 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Ashwaubenon, WI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ashwaubenon, WI 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 Ashwaubenon Waterworks 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.