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Dells Estates

What EPA’s and Wisconsin’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
30 people
Connections
28
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Wisconsin Dells, WI
County
Columbia
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

53920

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2023.

Arsenic, nitrate, chromium (total) and fluoride: Wisconsin’s own results, samples taken from Dec. 28, 2022 to Jan. 26, 2026.

Above the health goal2

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

2.2ppb

90th percentile, 2023

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.2 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.36ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.36 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits3

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.1ppm

Highest sample; found in 3 of 3

2026, one sample: 2.1 ppm

The highest sample, in 2026, was 2.1 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 2.1 ppm.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

2024, one sample: 1.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.6 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.4 ppb.

What handles it

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.055ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.055 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: Lead Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Lead, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Lead Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Lead, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Lead and Copper Rule RevisionsThe required inventory of lead service lines was not completed or submitted on time.EPA: LSL InventoryOct. 17, 2024—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 5 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, nitrate, chromium (total) and fluoride results here are Wisconsin’s own from 2022 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Dells Estates’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Wisconsin’s results run from Dec. 28, 2022 to Jan. 26, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Dells Estates’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Wisconsin certifies.

The 3 labs Wisconsin certifies closest to the area Dells Estates serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • CT Laboratories

    Baraboo, WI · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (608) 356-2760

  • Marquette Co. Health Dept. dba Rural Env. Health Alliance

    Montello, WI · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (608) 297-3135

  • Pure Water Labs, LLC

    Reedsburg, WI · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (608) 225-3621

Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene: Well water test kits ordered by phone and shipped free; you pay to mail the sample back, and the lab bills you after testing. Tests run from bacteria alone to a homeowner package covering bacteria, nitrate, fluoride, metals, hardness, volatile organic compounds and atrazine. Bacteria is $35, nitrate $35, lead $38, and the homeowner package $450, as of July 1, 2026. Public Environmental and Water Testing Prices, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.

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Sources

PWSID WI1111017. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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