Richmond Estates, WI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.2 ppb (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. 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.
About Richmond Estates
Richmond Estates serves about 150 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI4590468. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Richmond Estates's lead record
That is down 2.8 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Richmond Estates is 3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 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. Richmond Estates's 0.2 ppb sits at the 19th percentile in Wisconsin and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Shawano County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Richmond Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Shawano Waterworks | 9,610 | 3.7 ppb |
| Shawano Lk San Dist 1 | 4,950 | 0.48 ppb |
| Bonduel Waterworks | 1,475 | 1.6 ppb |
| Wittenberg Waterworks | 1,200 | 1.5 ppb |
| Birnamwood Waterworks | 832 | 1.1 ppb |
| Tigerton Waterworks | 705 | 1.1 ppb |
| Gresham Waterworks | 534 | 0.93 ppb |
| Mattoon Waterworks | 450 | 0.14 ppb |
| Bowler Waterworks | 357 | 0.25 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bonduel, 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 Richmond Estates 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.