Dodge Sanitary Dist 1, WI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 31.8 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Dodge Sanitary Dist 1 at a glance
Dodge Sanitary Dist 1 serves about 120 people through 57 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 Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI6620165. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 30.43 ppb from 1.37 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dodge Sanitary Dist 1 is 31.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 31.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1.37 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.28 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. Dodge Sanitary Dist 1's 31.8 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Wisconsin and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Trempealeau County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dodge Sanitary Dist 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Arcadia Waterworks | 3,737 | 1.84 ppb |
| Trempealeau Waterworks | 1,888 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whitehall Waterworks | 1,820 | 1.5 ppb |
| Osseo Waterworks | 1,701 | 1.23 ppb |
| Galesville Waterworks | 1,679 | 2.84 ppb |
| Independence Waterworks | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blair Waterworks | 1,280 | 0 (not detected) |
| Strum Waterworks | 1,100 | 0.8 ppb |
| Eleva Waterworks | 635 | 4 ppb |
| Ettrick Waterworks | 536 | 1.87 ppb |
Next steps for Dodge, WI
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Dodge Sanitary Dist 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. 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.