Is Fountain City, WI tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 2 utilities serving Fountain City has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Wisconsin’s records: Fountain City Waterworks.
Fountain City Waterworks, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and Wisconsin’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
The water from Fountain City Waterworks is very hard, 266 mg/L (15.6 grains per gallon). How Wisconsin’s water compares.
A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Fountain City’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Fountain City Waterworks
Wisconsin · serves 443 people · under 100 in Fountain City
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: very hard, 266 mg/L (15.6 grains per gallon).
1 health-based violation since 2016
- Open report
Fountain Bluffs MHP LLC
Wisconsin · serves 25 people · under 100 in Fountain City
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 0.63 ppb, above the health goal. Hardness: very hard, 272 mg/L (15.9 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Fountain City
The 3 labs Wisconsin certifies closest to Fountain City, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Buffalo County Department of Health and Human Services
Alma, WI · about 16 miles
Certified for bacteria
A1 Advanced Pumping Service, Inc.
West Salem, WI · about 33 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate
Davy Laboratories
La Crosse, WI · about 36 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
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 Fountain City
Which ZIP codes are in Fountain City: 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 Fountain City
Towns nearby with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Fountain City 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