Waupaca Waterworks, WI Water Quality
Is Waupaca Waterworks's water safe to drink?
Waupaca Waterworks had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 6,062, over 2,169 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Waupaca Waterworks ranks 5,207th by violation burden (60th percentile) - 12 violations total, 3 health-based.
How Waupaca Waterworks compares within WI
Waupaca Waterworks's 3 health-based violations sit within the WI average of 5.4, across 259 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Waupaca Waterworks is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Waupaca Waterworks's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule Revisions
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is Waupaca Waterworks's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for Waupaca Waterworks - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.