Public water system · WI7500178

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Plover Cafe

At a glance

Plover Cafe (PWSID WI7500178) is an active transient non-community water system in Portage County, Wisconsin. It reports serving 30 people through 1 service connection. Its primary water source is groundwater, and EPA lists it as privately owned. EPA's records list 8 violations for this system; 3 are health-based, and the most recent began in January 2020.

Dataset updated October 2026 . Source: EPA SDWIS/ECHO public records.

Population served

Service connections

Primary source

Groundwater

System type

TNCWS

Transient non-community water system

System record

PWSIDWI7500178

System typeTransient non-community water system

Activity statusActive

Population served30

Service connections1

Primary water sourceGroundwater

Owner typePrivate

Primacy agencyWI state drinking water program

City servedPlover

StateWisconsin

ZIP—

CountyPortage County

How does Plover Cafe compare with other water systems in Portage County?

By EPA's size categories, Plover Cafe is a very small system (500 people or fewer). Portage County has 148 active public water systems. Its population served is well below the county average of 340 people per system, and accounts for less than 0.1% of the 50,348 people reported by systems filed under the county. Across Wisconsin, the 11,056 active systems average 469 people each. Nationally, the average active transient non-community water system reports serving 144 people, so Plover Cafe is well below that figure.

What does “transient non-community water system” mean?

A transient non-community water system serves places where people do not stay long, such as gas stations and campgrounds, and regularly serves at least 25 people a day for at least 60 days a year. Wisconsin has 9,112 active transient non-community water systems, 82% of the state's 11,056 active systems. Groundwater means the system draws its water from wells or springs fed by underground aquifers. 10,978 Wisconsin systems (99%) list groundwater as their primary source.

Who owns and regulates Plover Cafe?

EPA lists Plover Cafe as privately owned. The WI state drinking water program is its primacy agency, the regulator with primary enforcement responsibility for the system under the Safe Drinking Water Act. 113 of the 148 active systems in Portage County (76%) are also privately owned.

Does Plover Cafe have drinking water violations?

EPA's records list 8 violations for this system; 3 are health-based, and the most recent began in January 2020. The violations listed here began between January 1992 and January 2020. By type: 3 monitoring and reporting, 3 contaminant level above the legal limit and 2 public notice, recordkeeping or other. The contaminant or rule involved most often is Nitrate (3 of them). EPA lists 7 as resolved and 1 as archived. Resolved means at least one resolving action is on record: the system returned to compliance, the rule no longer applies, or no further action was needed. Archived means the violation was not marked resolved but is more than five years past the end of the noncompliance period, so it no longer counts toward current compliance status.

Began	Violation	Contaminant or rule	Health-based	Status
2020-01-01	Monitoring and reportingMonitoring, Regular · code 03	Nitratecode 1040	No	Resolved
2017-10-09	Public notice, recordkeeping or otherPublic Notification Violation for NPDWR Violation · code 75	Public Noticecode 7500	No	Resolved
2017-01-01	Contaminant level above the legal limitMaximum Contaminant Level Violation, Average · code 02	Nitrate-Nitritecode 1038	Yes	Resolved
2015-04-01	Monitoring and reportingMonitoring, Regular · code 03	Nitratecode 1040	No	Resolved
2014-05-19	Public notice, recordkeeping or otherPublic Notification Violation for NPDWR Violation · code 75	Public Noticecode 7500	No	Resolved
2014-01-01	Contaminant level above the legal limitMaximum Contaminant Level Violation, Average · code 02	Nitrate-Nitritecode 1038	Yes	Resolved
1995-01-01	Monitoring and reportingMonitoring, Regular · code 03	Nitritecode 1041	No	Resolved
1992-01-01	Contaminant level above the legal limitMaximum Contaminant Level Violation, Average · code 02	Nitratecode 1040	Yes	Archived

All 8 violations in EPA's records, newest first.Labels and codes come from EPA's SDWIS reference tables. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was missed or late; it does not by itself mean a contaminant was found. "Health-based" marks violations of a legal limit or required treatment.

Plover Cafe: frequently asked questions

Who runs Plover Cafe?

Plover Cafe (PWSID WI7500178) is a transient non-community water system privately owned. It is regulated by the WI state drinking water program.

How many people does Plover Cafe serve?

Plover Cafe reports serving 30 people through 1 service connection in Portage County, Wisconsin.

Where does Plover Cafe get its water?

EPA SDWIS lists this system's primary water source as groundwater. Groundwater means the system draws its water from wells or springs fed by underground aquifers.

Does Plover Cafe have any drinking water violations?

EPA's records list 8 violations for this system; 3 are health-based, and the most recent began in January 2020. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was missed or late; it does not by itself mean a contaminant was found.

Is Plover Cafe's water safe to drink?

AquaCensus shows EPA compliance records, not current water test results, so it cannot say whether the water is safe at a given moment. EPA's records list 8 violations for this system; 3 are health-based, and the most recent began in January 2020. For current results, consult EPA ECHO, or the WI state drinking water program.

Where can I find Plover Cafe's water quality report?

The annual Consumer Confidence Report requirement applies to community water systems. Plover Cafe is a transient non-community water system, so it is not required to publish one; like every public water system, it must notify the people it serves about violations under EPA's public notification rules.

Other water systems in Portage County

Water system	County	Population served	Type	Source
Stevens Point Waterworks	Portage	26,717	Community	Groundwater
Plover Waterworks	Portage	13,486	Community	Groundwater
Whiting Waterworks	Portage	1,743	Community	Groundwater
Amherst Waterworks	Portage	1,119	Community	Groundwater
Mccain Foods USA	Portage	450	Non-transient non-community	Groundwater
Almond-Bancroft Public Schools	Portage	420	Non-transient non-community	Groundwater

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About this data

Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) and SDWA violation records, via EPA ECHO, as published October 1, 2026 — AquaCensus refreshes it quarterly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.

Cite as: AquaCensus, “Plover Cafe, PWSID WI7500178, Wisconsin”, https://aquacensus.com/water-systems/wisconsin/plover-cafe-wi7500178 (data as of October 1, 2026).