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Outagamie County |
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This report provides the most current
information and data found, as of May 2007, unless otherwise
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SOURCES
OF DRINKING WATER
- Wisconsin has nearly 11,500 public
water systems which meet the daily water needs of about 4 million people. Public
water systems that are owned by a community are called municipal water systems.
Outagamie County has 17 municipal water systems.
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GROUNDWATER
PROTECTION POLICIES
- 6 of 17 municipal
water systems in Outagamie County have a wellhead
protection plan: Darboy, Freedom, Greenville, Little Chute, Nichols and Seymour.
- 4 of 17 municipal
water systems in Outagamie County have a wellhead
protection ordinance: Darboy, Greenville, Little Chute, and Seymour.
- Outagamie County has adopted an animal
waste management ordinance.
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MONEY SPENT
ON CLEANUP
- Over $46 million
has been spent on petroleum cleanup in Outagamie County from leaking underground
storage tanks, which equates to $332 per county
resident.
- No municipal water systems in Outagamie
County have spent money to reduce nitrate levels.
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GROUNDWATER
USE
- From 1979 to 2005, total water use in Outagamie County has decreased from
90.0 million gallons per day to about 66.8 million gallons per day.*
- The decrease in total water use over this period is due to a decrease in
industrial use.
- The proportion of county water use supplied by groundwater has increased
from about 12% to 29% during the period 1979 to 2000 and decreased to 19% in
2005.*
- Water use in Wisconsin is generally estimated for the following
categories:
- Domestic
- Livestock
- Aquaculture
- Irrigation
- Industrial
- Commercial
- Public use and losses
- Thermoelectric or mining*
* Thermoelectric and mining data are not
considered in water-use tables or figures on this web site. Thermoelectric-power
water use is the amount of water used in the process of generating thermoelectric
power. The predominant use of water is as non-contact cooling water to condense
the steam created to turn the turbines and generate electricity.
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SUSCEPTIBILITY
OF GROUNDWATER TO CONTAMINANTS
- Wisconsin has abundant quantities
of high-quality groundwater, but once groundwater is contaminated, it's very
expensive and often not technically possible to clean.
- An evaluation of the
susceptibility of groundwater to contamination in Outagamie County can be seen
in the FULL REPORT or accessed through the map
link above.
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GROUNDWATER
QUALITY
- 96% of 293 private
well samples collected in Outagamie County from 1990-2006 met the health-based
drinking water limit for nitrate-nitrogen.
- A 2002 study estimated that 33% of
private drinking water wells in the region of Wisconsin that includes Outagamie
County contained a detectable level of an herbicide or herbicide metabolite.
Pesticides occur in groundwater more commonly in agricultural regions, but can
occur anywhere pesticides are stored or applied.
- 7,852 acres of land in Outagamie
County are in atrazine prohibition areas.
- 64% of 488 private well samples
collected in Outagamie County met the health standard for arsenic.
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POTENTIAL
SOURCES OF CONTAMINANTS
- There are 111 open-status sites in
Outagamie County that have contaminated groundwater and/or soil. These sites
include 34 Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) sites, 66 Environmental Repair
(ERP) sites, 5 spill sites and 6 Voluntary Party Liability Exemption (VPLE) sites.
- There are 5 concentrated
animal feeding operations in Outagamie County.
- There are 3 licensed landfills in Outagamie
County.
- There is 1 Superfund site in
Outagamie County.
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