Wisconsin Veterans Home, WI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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
Wisconsin Veterans Home serves about 950 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. EPA system ID: WI4690395. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wisconsin Veterans Home is 17 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 10 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.5 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. Wisconsin Veterans Home's 2 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Wisconsin and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Waupaca County
10 other systems share Waupaca County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wisconsin Veterans Home. 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 |
| Embarrass Waterworks | 346 | 6.4 ppb |
| Oakwood Estates Mhp | 110 | 1.75 ppb |
| Rawhide Youth Homes | 92 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; King, 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 Wisconsin Veterans 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.