Rawhide Youth Homes, WI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2021). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Rawhide Youth Homes serves about 92 people through 11 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI4690321. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2018 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rawhide Youth Homes is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Rawhide Youth Homes's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Wisconsin and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Waupaca County
10 other systems share Waupaca County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rawhide Youth Homes. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New London Waterworks | 7,187 | 7.9 ppb |
| Waupaca Waterworks | 6,062 | 3.6 ppb |
| Clintonville Utilities | 4,635 | 3.5 ppb |
| Weyauwega Waterworks | 1,820 | 6 ppb |
| Manawa Waterworks | 1,300 | 3.6 ppb |
| Marion Waterworks | 1,293 | 2.8 ppb |
| Iola Waterworks | 1,249 | 12 ppb |
| Wisconsin Veterans Home | 950 | 2 ppb |
| Embarrass Waterworks | 346 | 6.4 ppb |
| Oakwood Estates Mhp | 110 | 1.75 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Rawhide Youth Homes's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Rawhide Youth Homes 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.