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Transient non-community system in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, serving 100 people from ground water. 2 rules violated in the past three years. Privately owned.
Quarterly compliance history
2023
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2026
Rules violated in the past three years
Jul to Sep 2023 to Jul to Sep 2026
Nitrate Rule
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation
Health-based
1 violation, Jan 2024 to Oct 2025 · 30 MG/L
Nitrate Rule
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation Health-based1 violation, Jan 2024 to Oct 2025 · 30 MG/L
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, health-based: 1 violation, Jan 2024 to Oct 2025. A sample exceeded the maximum contaminant level EPA allows in drinking water.
Limit 10.5 MG/L · Jan to Dec 2024
What the rule requires: Nitrate (NO₃) is the most common chemical contaminant in US groundwater, entering from fertilizers, septic systems, and animal waste. It is odorless and tasteless — the only way to know if it's present is to test.
Health effects: Methemoglobinemia in infants under 6 months: gut bacteria convert nitrate to nitrite, which blocks oxygen transport in blood. Pregnant women should also take precautions. Chronic adult exposure at elevated levels may increase cancer risk. Limit: 10 mg/L as nitrogen (NO₃-N)
About this rule
Public Notice Rule and Revised PN Rule
Other Violation
1 violation, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025 · Public Notification Rule
Public Notice Rule and Revised PN Rule
Other Violation1 violation, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025 · Public Notification Rule
Other Violation: 1 violation, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025. A requirement other than monitoring, reporting, or a contaminant limit, such as public notice or the annual water quality report.
Contaminant on the record: Public Notification Rule.
About this data
Rules violated and the list above come from EPA's SDWIS violation records, one row per violation and contaminant, grouped by the rule each row belongs to. A violation counts when its non-compliance period ended on or after Jul 1, 2023, the start of the thirteen quarters ECHO's three-year figures cover, or is still open; it is unresolved when it was still open at EPA's data refresh on Oct 7, 2026. EPA's rule code 500, "Not Regulated", is left out, as in ECHO's counts. Each rule's violation count is EPA's, and one rule can carry several: a missed monitoring round for a group of contaminants is one violation per contaminant and period. Category names are EPA's violation categories.
ECHO's own summary count of rules violated agrees with this grouping for 98.8% of active systems nationally, and its count of rules being violated for 98.7%; where they differ, the figures here follow the rows listed.
A measured value shown with a rule is the sample result EPA recorded with that violation (SDWIS viol_measure), against the limit EPA recorded on the same row (state_mcl), both in EPA's unit as written; violations without a recorded value, such as missed monitoring, show none. Other measured contaminant levels are not part of this record; each system publishes them in its annual Consumer Confidence Report.
Service area from EPA's Public Water System Service Area Boundaries dataset: location confidence HIGHER. The system's location is the centre of the service area EPA publishes for the system.
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.