Browntown Waterworks, WI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.48 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 Browntown Waterworks
Browntown Waterworks serves about 256 people through 94 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Green County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI1230077. 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 1.38 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Browntown Waterworks is 9.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.48 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.38 ppb |
| 2017 | 9.9 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. Browntown Waterworks's 2.48 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Wisconsin and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Green County
9 other systems share Green County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Browntown Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Monroe Waterworks | 10,780 | 4.7 ppb |
| Brodhead Waterworks | 3,216 | 1.02 ppb |
| Belleville Waterworks | 2,712 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Glarus Waterworks | 2,348 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brooklyn Waterworks | 1,524 | 0.78 ppb |
| Monticello Waterworks | 1,217 | 0.25 ppb |
| Albany Waterworks | 1,018 | 0.56 ppb |
| Pleasant View Nursing Home | 260 | 4.3 ppb |
| Van-Gogh Homes Llc | 46 | 5.15 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Browntown, 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 Browntown 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.