Plum City Care Center Nursing Home, WI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2022). 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
Plum City Care Center Nursing Home serves about 120 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pierce County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI6480372. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.1 ppb from 0.9 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Plum City Care Center Nursing Home is 16.79 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 16.79 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. Plum City Care Center Nursing Home's 3 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Wisconsin and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pierce County
10 other systems share Pierce County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Plum City Care Center Nursing Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| River Falls Waterworks | 16,000 | 0.88 ppb |
| Prescott Waterworks | 4,258 | 1.9 ppb |
| Ellsworth Waterworks | 3,304 | 2.4 ppb |
| Spring Valley Waterworks | 1,409 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elmwood Waterworks | 798 | 2.3 ppb |
| Bay City Waterworks | 499 | 2.05 ppb |
| St Croix Improvements | 175 | 0.93 ppb |
| Maiden Rock Water Utility | 118 | 0.39 ppb |
| Country Manor Apts | 50 | 3.5 ppb |
| Prairie View Senior Living | 31 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Plum City, WI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Plum City, 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 Plum City Care Center Nursing Home 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.