Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist, WI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist serves about 450 people through 182 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 Vilas County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI7640112. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0.28 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist is 0.41 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.28 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.41 ppb |
How Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist 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. Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Wisconsin and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Vilas County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist. 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 |
| 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 |
| Evergreen Estates | 50 | 0.94 ppb |
Next steps for Land O Lakes, WI
Look up your address in Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Land O Lakes Sanitary Dist 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.