Evergreen Estates, WI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.94 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2021). 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.
Evergreen Estates at a glance
Evergreen Estates serves about 50 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Vilas County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI7640118. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.03 ppb from 1.97 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Evergreen Estates is 1.97 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0.94 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.97 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. Evergreen Estates's 0.94 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in Wisconsin and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Vilas County
7 other systems share Vilas County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Evergreen Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eagle River Waterworks | 1,530 | 0 (not detected) |
| Phelps Sanitary District | 550 | 1.2 ppb |
| Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hiawatha Mh Estates Clbhse | 124 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lowenstine Fund Corporation | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office | 84 | 1.09 ppb |
| Baltic Rentals Llc | 75 | 1.75 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Arbor Vitae, 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 Evergreen Estates 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.