Community Water System · PWS WI4590451
Bowler Waterworks
Operator location Bowler, Wisconsin - 48% of 85 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 357 served per SDWIS.
- 357
- People served (this PWS)
- 85
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 41
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bowler Waterworks standing, high SDWIS violation third
48% of 85 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 48% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Bowler Waterworks sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (85), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (357; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 48% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 85
- Total EPA violations on record
- 48%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 357
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 132
- County
- Shawano
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 41
- Monitoring Violations
- 37
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 30 | 2006 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 11 | 2012 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2004 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bowler Waterworks has 85 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 48% of this system's own violations are health-based (41 of 85), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
85 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% 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 Bowler Waterworks
41 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WI4590451.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Wisconsin DNR, Drinking Water and Groundwater
Nationwide peers
85 violations · 357 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Bowler Waterworks
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