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Chippewa County, Wisconsin

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WI017 · Chippewa County 219 sys · 3,638 viol · #928/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 65.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 25.2% health
  • RANK-UPPER #928/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-LARGE 219 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Brown County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Chippewa County ranks #928 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #25 of 71 counties in Wisconsin. See methodology · corpus placement.

Chippewa County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 65.8% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 25.2% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #928 of 3,254 · #25 of 71 in Wisconsin.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Chippewa County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Chippewa County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Bayfield · lowest Chippewa · this county Rusk · near Milwaukee · highest 52.1% 65.6% 65.8% 65.8% 66.3% 66.3% 95.3%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Chippewa Falls Waterworks 13,375 284 Detected
Lake Hallie Waterworks Village Of 6,701 61 Clean
Bloomer Waterworks 3,680 147 Clean
Stanley Waterworks 3,500 106 Clean
Cornell Waterworks 1,390 51 -
Cadott Waterworks 1,352 24 -
Bateman Express Mart 800 6 -
WI DNR Lake Wissota B Bldg 665 11 -
WI DNR Lake Wissota Shop 665 25 -
WI DNR Lake Wissota Welcome Center 665 0 -
New Auburn Waterworks 549 174 -
Boyd Waterworks 540 39 -
Pops 202 500 43 -
Lake Holcombe Convenience Store 500 5 -
Eastbay 500 0 -
Lake Wissota Golf 500 0 -
WI DNR Lake Wissota Cmpgd 469 0 -
Holcombe High School 445 147 -
Wissota Express 400 29 -
Lake Hallie Golf LLC 400 5 -
Stillson Elementary School 371 26 -
WI DNR Brunet Island Office 350 52 -
WI DNR Brunet Island N 1 350 27 -
WI DNR Brunet Island N 2-Campgrd 350 24 -
WI DNR Brunet Island Picnic 350 11 -
Birch Point Resort-Tavern 300 17 -
Big Elk Creek Lutheran Church 250 16 -
White Pine Pavillion 225 23 -
Oneil Creek Cmpgd-South 200 3 -
St Johns Ev Lutheran Church 200 9 -
Landing, The 200 7 -
Albertville Tavern 200 22 -
Whispering Pines Golf Course 200 4 -
Lake Hallie Sportsmans Club 200 3 -
YMCA Camp Manitou - South Wash House 150 12 -
English Luth Church of Bateman 150 20 -
Rock Lake Resort 150 0 -
Cm Cornell Lake Resort & Cmpgd 150 8 -
Horizons of Tilden LLC 150 13 -
Ojibwa Golf & Bowl 150 2 -
Bresinas Hometown Bar & Grill 150 33 -
Ampi Jim Falls 150 25 -
Chippewa Co Pine Point Pk Beach Well 150 4 -
Lafayette Town Hall 150 0 -
Hoffmanns Wissota Court 126 30 -
Arrowhead Bible Camp 120 0 -
Sand Haven Cmpgd North 118 0 -
Sand Haven Cmpgd South 114 12 -
Jim Falls Elem School 1 113 8 -
Kings Inn 100 10 -

Compare beyond Wisconsin

Lower-flagged peers for Chippewa County

Cross-state counties nearest Chippewa County on flagged-system share (65.8%) and cumulative violation count (3,638). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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