Country Estates Sanitary District Town Of Lyons 1, WI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.35 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.
Who runs the water here
Country Estates Sanitary District Town Of Lyons 1 serves about 500 people through 200 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Walworth County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI2650127. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.05 ppb from 4.4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Estates Sanitary District Town Of Lyons 1 is 4.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.35 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.6 ppb |
Against other Wisconsin systems
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. Country Estates Sanitary District Town Of Lyons 1's 1.35 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Wisconsin and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Walworth County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Estates Sanitary District Town Of Lyons 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Whitewater Waterworks | 14,000 | 10 ppb |
| Elkhorn Waterworks | 10,317 | 13 ppb |
| Delavan Waterworks | 9,028 | 10 ppb |
| Lake Geneva Utility Commission | 7,107 | 8 ppb |
| East Troy Waterworks | 5,054 | 4.4 ppb |
| Bloomfield, Village Of | 4,071 | 1.95 ppb |
| Lake Como Sanitary Dist 1 | 3,038 | 2.5 ppb |
| Genoa City Waterworks | 2,766 | 4.56 ppb |
| Williams Bay Waterworks | 2,601 | 45 ppb |
| Walworth Waterworks | 2,304 | 6.3 ppb |
Next steps for Burlington, WI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Burlington, 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 Country Estates Sanitary District Town Of Lyons 1 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.