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Oak Park Community, WI

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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.

Oak Park Community at a glance

Oak Park Community serves about 90 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Grant County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI1220095. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.

Every lead result on file

Against the period ending 2018 (1.43 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oak Park Community is 1.43 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20210.8 ppb
20181.43 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. Oak Park Community's 0.8 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Wisconsin and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).

Nearby utilities

27 other systems share Grant County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oak Park Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Platteville Waterworks12,26810.3 ppb
Lancaster Waterworks3,9071.8 ppb
Boscobel Waterworks3,2371.1 ppb
Fennimore Waterworks2,5071.61 ppb
Cuba City Waterworks2,1410 (not detected)
Muscoda Waterworks1,4532.64 ppb
Hazel Green Waterworks1,1932.83 ppb
Dickeyville Waterworks1,0690 (not detected)
Cassville Waterworks7773.24 ppb
Montfort Waterworks7181.1 ppb

Next steps for Dickeyville, WI

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dickeyville, 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 Oak Park Community 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.