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Richland County, Wisconsin

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WI103 · Richland County 38 sys · 1,354 viol · #2287/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 89.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 15.0% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2287/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.7 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 38 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Grant County ( -0.7 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Richland County ranks #2,287 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #61 of 71 counties in Wisconsin. See methodology · corpus placement.

Richland County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 89.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 15.0% is health-based share in the middle 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 #2,287 of 3,254 · #61 of 71 in Wisconsin.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Richland County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Bayfield · lowest Grant · near Calumet · near Milwaukee · highest 52.1% 87.4% 88.8% 89.5% 91.8% 93.8% 95.3%

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

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Compare beyond Wisconsin

Lower-flagged peers for Richland County

Cross-state counties nearest Richland County on flagged-system share (89.5%) and cumulative violation count (1,354). 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.

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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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