Is Taycheedah, WI tap water safe?
The short answer
Fond Du Lac Waterworks serves Taycheedah. In EPA’s and Wisconsin’s records it has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.
The worst: Lithium at 20 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.
The water from Fond Du Lac Waterworks is very hard, typically 375 mg/L (21.9 grains per gallon). How Wisconsin’s water compares.
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.
What handles it
Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Fond Du Lac Waterworks’s water.
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Aquasana SmartFlow Reverse Osmosis (AQ-SFRO2)
Under-sink reverse osmosis
- WQA listing:NSF/ANSI 42NSF/ANSI 53NSF/ANSI 58NSF/ANSI 401checked Oct. 9, 2026
Certified for: Lead, Arsenic
Brondell Capella RC250 Reverse Osmosis System
Under-sink reverse osmosis
- WQA listing:NSF/ANSI 42NSF/ANSI 53NSF/ANSI 58NSF/ANSI 401checked Oct. 9, 2026
Certified for: Lead, Arsenic
Water testing near Taycheedah
The 3 labs Wisconsin certifies closest to Taycheedah, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Fond du Lac County Health Department
Fond du Lac, WI · about 1 mile
Certified for bacteria
UW-Oshkosh Env. Research & Innovation Ctr
Oshkosh, WI · about 20 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Sturgeon Bay, WI · about 20 miles
Certified for bacteria
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 WisconsinWhich ZIP codes are in Taycheedah: 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 Taycheedah
Other towns in Fond du Lac County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Fond Du Lac Waterworks’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- About LithiumWhat it does to health, where it comes from, and the certification claim that addresses it.About Lithium
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water