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Water report shows PFAS near EPA limit; village weighing costly treatment options
Summary
A village water representative presented the 2025 Consumer Confidence Report showing the village's four-sample average near the EPA state's 4 parts per trillion threshold (4.1 ppt), discussed recent lower investigatory samples and said treatment for a well could cost millions; trustees were briefed on timelines and funding possibilities.
The Village of Hartland’s 2025 Consumer Confidence Report, delivered at the board meeting, shows the village’s water system is operating in compliance with state sampling requirements but that some PFAS measurements are close to the regulatory threshold.
Tom (water utility representative) told trustees the report compiles sampling across the distribution system for 2025 and that "everything that we are testing for is within compliance" and that the village had "no violations throughout last year." He said the EPA standard for PFAS (as adopted by the state) is 4 parts per trillion and that the village’s averaged result was recorded at 4.1 parts per trillion, placing the system on the borderline.
Tom said the village has until 2030 to make corrective actions if required and that recent investigatory samples the village voluntarily ran returned lower numbers (he cited results near 3 parts per trillion). "So now that I got some samples that are under it, I have to wait for the actual regulation period... for that to start taking the average," he said.
The representative explained that full treatment at a single well can be expensive. The transcript includes a reference to "treatment around $7 million for Well 6" as an example of the scale of capital cost that a full filtration installation may entail; he also described the pilot-testing process required by DNR (sampling for an extended period and testing media to find the right design) prior to building a permanent treatment system.
Trustees noted that other municipalities with far higher PFAS levels have shut down wells or spent millions on treatment and that state and federal funds and settlements (the transcript references settlement monies such as a Tyco settlement) have been used elsewhere. Tom said the village continues sampling and is exploring funding options and inter-municipal lessons learned but that no immediate remedial action had been mandated at this time.
