Pewaukee Village Waterworks, WI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Who runs the water here
Pewaukee Village Waterworks serves about 8,166 people through 3,024 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 Waukesha County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI2680229. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pewaukee Village Waterworks is 16 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 16 ppb over 15 |
How Pewaukee Village Waterworks 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. Pewaukee Village Waterworks's 1 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Wisconsin and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Waukesha County
71 other systems share Waukesha County; 37 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pewaukee Village Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Waukesha Water Utility | 70,718 | 0.56 ppb |
| Brookfield Water Utility | 29,070 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Berlin Water Utility | 27,899 | 0.33 ppb |
| Menomonee Falls Ww - Surface Water | 23,867 | 2.1 ppb |
| Oconomowoc Waterworks | 15,805 | 6.8 ppb |
| Sussex Village Hall & Water Utility | 11,750 | 1.8 ppb |
| Hartland Waterworks | 9,212 | 4.2 ppb |
| Pewaukee City Water And Sewer Utility | 8,671 | 2.6 ppb |
| Mukwonago Waterworks | 8,190 | 3.2 ppb |
| Muskego Water Utility | 8,150 | 3.89 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pewaukee, 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 Pewaukee Village 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.