Is Wrightstown, WI tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 2 utilities serving Wrightstown has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Wisconsin’s records: Wrightstown Waterworks.
Wrightstown 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 Wrightstown Waterworks is hard, typically 136 mg/L (8 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 Wrightstown’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Wrightstown Waterworks
Wisconsin · serves 3,815 people · about 2,000 in Wrightstown
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: hard, typically 136 mg/L (8 grains per gallon).
1 health-based violation since 2016
- Open report
Kaukauna Utilities
Wisconsin · serves 17,493 people · under 100 in Wrightstown
3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 17 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Hardness: very hard, typically 655 mg/L (38.3 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Wrightstown
The 3 labs Wisconsin certifies closest to Wrightstown, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Farm First Dairy Cooperative
Kaukauna, WI · about 2 miles
Certified for bacteria
Branch River Testing Services LLC
Greenleaf, WI · about 8 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals
Outagamie County Public Health Lab
Appleton, WI · about 9 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 Wrightstown: 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 Wrightstown
Other towns in Outagamie County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Wrightstown 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