Oostburg Waterworks, WI
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.5 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Oostburg Waterworks serves about 3,110 people through 1,151 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI4600445. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Oostburg Waterworks's lead record
That is up 1.2 ppb from 9.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oostburg Waterworks is 10.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 9.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.9 ppb |
Against other Wisconsin systems
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. Oostburg Waterworks's 10.5 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Wisconsin and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Sheboygan County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oostburg Waterworks. 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 |
| 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 |
| Lakeland University | 1,200 | 3.22 ppb |
Next steps for Oostburg, WI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Oostburg, 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 Oostburg 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.