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Lafayette County, Wisconsin

40 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 11,118 people in Lafayette County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

40
SDWIS water systems Larger third of counties
1,291
Total violations Middle third of counties
82.5%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WI065 · Lafayette County 40 sys · 1,291 viol · #2267/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 82.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 27.0% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2267/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-MID 40 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Racine County (+ 0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Lafayette County ranks #2,267 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #60 of 71 counties in Wisconsin. See methodology · corpus placement.

Lafayette County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 82.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 27.0% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,267 of 3,254 · #60 of 71 in Wisconsin.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Lafayette County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Bayfield · lowest Lafayette · this county Oconto · near Milwaukee · highest 52.1% 81.8% 82.5% 82.6% 82.8% 83.1% 95.3%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Lafayette County

Cross-state counties nearest Lafayette County on flagged-system share (82.5%) and cumulative violation count (1,291). 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).

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

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