Haugen Waterworks, WI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Haugen Waterworks
Haugen Waterworks serves about 287 people through 106 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 Barron County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI6030143. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0.59 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Haugen Waterworks is 23.89 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.69 ppb |
| 2020 | 23.89 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Haugen Waterworks compares
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. Haugen Waterworks's 0.8 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Wisconsin and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Barron County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Haugen Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rice Lake Waterworks | 9,012 | 0.99 ppb |
| Barron Light & Water Dept | 3,423 | 1.6 ppb |
| Cumberland Waterworks | 2,311 | 1.2 ppb |
| Chetek Waterworks | 1,931 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cameron Waterworks | 1,787 | 1.6 ppb |
| Turtle Lake Waterworks | 1,073 | 1.8 ppb |
| Almena Waterworks | 705 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dallas Waterworks | 365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Andersons Trailer Court | 95 | 0 (not detected) |
| Red Cedar Valley Estates Mhp | 80 | 0.88 ppb |
Next steps for Haugen, WI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Haugen, 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 Haugen 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.