Lakeland University, WI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.22 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Lakeland University
Lakeland University serves about 1,200 people through 33 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI4600487. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 18.55 ppb from 21.77 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakeland University is 21.77 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.22 ppb |
| 2025 | 21.77 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.46 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 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. Lakeland University's 3.22 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Wisconsin and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sheboygan County
16 other systems share Sheboygan County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakeland University. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sheboygan Water Utilities | 49,931 | 2.2 ppb |
| Plymouth Utilities | 8,964 | 6.17 ppb |
| Sheboygan Falls Utilities | 8,687 | 5.4 ppb |
| Sheboygan Tn Waterworks | 4,596 | 2.9 ppb |
| Oostburg Waterworks | 3,110 | 10.5 ppb |
| Kohler Waterworks | 2,271 | 0.82 ppb |
| Cedar Grove Waterworks | 2,213 | 8.9 ppb |
| Random Lake Waterworks | 1,594 | 0.53 ppb |
| Elkhart Lake Waterworks | 1,567 | 0.54 ppb |
| Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution | 1,544 | 0.34 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Plymouth, 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 Lakeland University 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.