Johnson Creek Waterworks, WI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 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.
Johnson Creek Waterworks at a glance
Johnson Creek Waterworks serves about 3,318 people through 1,228 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI1280107. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Johnson Creek Waterworks is 24.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 24.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 7.4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Johnson Creek Waterworks's 2.8 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Wisconsin and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Jefferson County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Johnson Creek Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Watertown Waterworks | 23,945 | 15 ppb |
| Fort Atkinson Waterworks | 12,390 | 13 ppb |
| Jefferson Waterworks | 7,926 | 3.5 ppb |
| Lake Mills Waterworks | 6,211 | 4.6 ppb |
| Waterloo Waterworks | 3,520 | 1.3 ppb |
| Palmyra Waterworks | 1,756 | 3.8 ppb |
| Autumn Ridge Water System Llc | 575 | 0.59 ppb |
| Spacious Acres Mobile Home Community | 525 | 0.73 ppb |
| Tremain Mobile Home Park | 475 | 1.46 ppb |
| Lakewood Village | 160 | 2.58 ppb |
Next steps for Johnson Creek, WI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Johnson Creek, 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 Johnson Creek 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.