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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS WI1110165

WI DOT Rest Area 12 Dekorra West Bound

Operator location Madison, Wisconsin - 70% of 53 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 3,255 served per SDWIS.

3,255
People served (this PWS)
53
EPA violations (this PWS)
37
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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WI DOT Rest Area 12 Dekorra West Bound standing, mid SDWIS violation third

70% of 53 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 70% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,035 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

WI DOT Rest Area 12 Dekorra West Bound lands in the middle third by violation volume (53), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 3,255 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 70% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,035 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#191 of 744
Population · WI
53
Total EPA violations on record
70%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
1
County
Columbia
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
37
Monitoring Violations
15
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 28 2012
Coliform (TCR) MR 15 2002
Nitrate-Nitrite MCL 9 2006

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

WI DOT Rest Area 12 Dekorra West Bound has 53 recorded EPA violations, 58% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 70% of this system's own violations are health-based (37 of 53), and it ranks #10,035 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

53 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on WI DOT Rest Area 12 Dekorra West Bound

37 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WI1110165.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Wisconsin DNR, Drinking Water and Groundwater

Nationwide peers

53 violations · 3,255 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with WI DOT Rest Area 12 Dekorra West Bound

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Wisconsin compares on the same EPA violation measures. Wisconsin systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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