Is Combined Locks, WI tap water safe?
The short answer
Combined Locks Waterworks serves Combined Locks. In EPA’s and Wisconsin’s records it has nothing above a health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.
That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.
Water testing near Combined Locks
The 3 labs Wisconsin certifies closest to Combined Locks, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Outagamie County Public Health Lab
Appleton, WI · about 4 miles
Certified for bacteria
Farm First Dairy Cooperative
Kaukauna, WI · about 5 miles
Certified for bacteria
Clean Water Testing LLC
Appleton, WI · about 7 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
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.
All 156 certified labs for WisconsinZIP codes in Combined Locks
Which ZIP codes are in Combined Locks: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Wisconsin DNR and DATCP, certified and approved drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.
Near Combined Locks
Other towns in Outagamie County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Combined Locks Waterworks’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water