Eau Galle Cheese Factory LLC

Water Quality Snapshot: Eau Galle Cheese Factory LLC

Eau Galle Cheese Factory LLC is a private-owned non-transient non-community water system that delivers drinking water to 50 residents in Durand, Wisconsin (Pepin County) through 1 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 45 total violations for this system , of which 27 (60%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 18 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Nitrate, recorded in 27 violations (MCL, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Wisconsin, EPA tracks 10,988 public water systems serving 5,131,439 people, with 285,161 cumulative violations and 58,688 health-based violations on record. About 72% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 26 violations. Statewide, 51 of 202 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (25.2%).

Eau Galle Cheese Factory LLC's 45 violations sit above the Wisconsin average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.