Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID WI7350774

Hwy 51 Truckstop Site 4488

Serves 328 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateRothschild, Wisconsin
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On record since 2018: 13 violations. 6 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-04-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

6Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% of active water systems in Wisconsin. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
46% over the limit · 623% missed or late test · 331% notice or report · 4

Across Wisconsin, 54% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Arsenic2020-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0176 MG/L vs limit 0.0105 MG/L (1.7×)2019-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0203 MG/L vs limit 0.0105 MG/L (1.9×)2019-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0208 MG/L vs limit 0.0105 MG/L (2.0×)2019-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0205 MG/L vs limit 0.0105 MG/L (2.0×)2018-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0158 MG/L vs limit 0.0105 MG/L (1.5×)2018-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0107 MG/L vs limit 0.0105 MG/L (1.0×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 12 results on file · action level 15 ppb

7.5 ppb
6.6 ppb
4.9 ppb
4.5 ppb
4.5 ppb
4.3 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.1 ppb
1.2 ppb
1.2 ppb
0.99 ppb
0.9 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.4 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-02Groundwater RuleNotification, StateBack in compliance
  3. 2022-12-24Groundwater RuleNotification, StateBack in compliance
  4. 2022-12-23Groundwater RuleNotification, StateBack in compliance
  5. 2020-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0176 MG/L · limit 0.0105 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2019-10-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0203 MG/L · limit 0.0105 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2019-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0208 MG/L · limit 0.0105 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0205 MG/L · limit 0.0105 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0158 MG/L · limit 0.0105 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2018-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0107 MG/L · limit 0.0105 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served328
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityRothschild
EPA ZIP on file54474

Areas served

  • Merrill, Lincoln County

Reading this record

Hwy 51 Truckstop Site 4488 is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 328 people in Rothschild, Wisconsin. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.