Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office, WI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.09 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.
Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office at a glance
Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office serves about 84 people through 60 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: WI7441240. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2018 (1.23 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office is 1.23 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1.09 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.23 ppb |
How Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office 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. Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office's 1.09 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Wisconsin and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Vilas County
7 other systems share Vilas County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office. 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) |
| Baltic Rentals Llc | 75 | 1.75 ppb |
| Evergreen Estates | 50 | 0.94 ppb |
Next steps for Arbor Vitae, WI
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 Hiawatha Mh Estates Old Office 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.