Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS WI8020394
WI DNR Copper Falls Park Office and Bath House Showers
Operator location Mellen, Wisconsin - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 33 people served; 47 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 33
- People served (this PWS)
- 47
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
WI DNR Copper Falls Park Office and Bath House Showers standing, mid SDWIS violation third
33 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
WI DNR Copper Falls Park Office and Bath House Showers lands in the middle third by violation volume (47), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (33; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 47
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 33
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- State
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Ashland
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 39
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 27 | 2015 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 12 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 2003 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2003 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
WI DNR Copper Falls Park Office and Bath House Showers has 47 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 47), 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)
47 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for WI DNR Copper Falls Park Office and Bath House Showers
EPA SDWIS lists 33 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Wisconsin DNR, Drinking Water and Groundwater
Nationwide peers
47 violations · 33 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with WI DNR Copper Falls Park Office
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