Random Lake Waterworks, WI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.53 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. 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.
Random Lake Waterworks at a glance
Random Lake Waterworks serves about 1,594 people through 590 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: WI4600355. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.67 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Random Lake Waterworks is 2.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.53 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.7 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. Random Lake Waterworks's 0.53 ppb sits at the 28th percentile in Wisconsin and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Sheboygan County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Random Lake 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 |
| Oostburg Waterworks | 3,110 | 10.5 ppb |
| Kohler Waterworks | 2,271 | 0.82 ppb |
| Cedar Grove Waterworks | 2,213 | 8.9 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Random Lake, 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 Random Lake 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.