Pigeon Falls Waterworks, WI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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. 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
Pigeon Falls Waterworks serves about 409 people through 144 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 Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI6620329. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Pigeon Falls Waterworks's lead record
That is up 1.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pigeon Falls Waterworks is 69.5 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 69.5 ppb over 15 |
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. Pigeon Falls Waterworks's 1.5 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Wisconsin and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Trempealeau County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pigeon Falls Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Arcadia Waterworks | 3,737 | 1.84 ppb |
| Trempealeau Waterworks | 1,888 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whitehall Waterworks | 1,820 | 1.5 ppb |
| Osseo Waterworks | 1,701 | 1.23 ppb |
| Galesville Waterworks | 1,679 | 2.84 ppb |
| Independence Waterworks | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blair Waterworks | 1,280 | 0 (not detected) |
| Strum Waterworks | 1,100 | 0.8 ppb |
| Eleva Waterworks | 635 | 4 ppb |
| Ettrick Waterworks | 536 | 1.87 ppb |
Next steps for Pigeon Falls, WI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pigeon Falls, 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 Pigeon Falls 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.