149 active public water systems serve 50,398 people in Portage County. 129 are compliant, 20 had at least one EPA violation in the past three years, 1 is a designated serious violator, and 2 carry a health flag.
Active systems14910 community systems
People served50Kby public water systems
Systems with violations2013% of active systems, past 3 years
Serious violators12 systems carry a health flag
Needs attention
Dollar General Store #25974WI7501287 · Junction City · Transient non-community system · Serves 282 rules violated in the past three years. Unresolved: Revised Total Coliform Rule.
Bernatellos FoodWI7501155 · Waupaca · Non-Transient non-community system · Serves 1002 rules violated in the past three years. Unresolved: Lead and Copper Rule Revisions and Public Notice Rule and Revised PN Rule.
Totals cover active systems. Systems serving more than one county are counted in each county. EPA counts the rules a system was in violation of, not the individual violations; one rule can carry several.
Source: the U.S. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online system (ECHO), which publishes the federal Safe Drinking Water Information System. EPA's terms and values are shown as published. The Wisconsin records are from EPA's data refresh of Oct 7, 2026; EPA refreshes this data quarterly, and states report to EPA with a lag of three to six months, so the newest violations may not appear yet. Retrieved from ECHO on Oct 11, 2026.
Compliant
Compliant
No violations reported to EPA in the past three years.
At least one violation on record with EPA in the past three years. Many are monitoring or reporting lapses rather than contamination; the system page lists which rules were involved and whether each is still open.
EPA's designation, also called an enforcement priority, for a system with unresolved serious, multiple, or continuing violations. EPA expects the system and its state to act quickly to resolve them.
At least one open health-based violation: an exceedance of a maximum contaminant level or residual disinfectant level, or a treatment technique violation. Monitoring and reporting lapses do not raise this flag.