West Bend Waterworks, WI Water Quality
West Bend Waterworks: EPA violation history, explained
West Bend Waterworks has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 31,752, over 11,760 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
West Bend Waterworks has 72 violations on record in total, 6 of them health-based - ranking it 2,958th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 77th percentile nationally.
Against the WI average
Among the 259 WI systems in this dataset, the average is 5.4 health-based violations - West Bend Waterworks's 6 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
West Bend Waterworks's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2002-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/29/2026.
The concern categories on record
West Bend 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
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What West Bend Waterworks's record does not cover
West Bend Waterworks's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and West Bend Waterworks's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,958th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.