Health & Human Service - Public Health

FREE Well Water Testing

* available for pregnant women & families with infants up to one year of age
* bacteria, nitrates, fluoride
* call the Columbia County Division of Health at (608) 742-9227
* pickup at the Division of Health, 2652 Murphy Road, Portage, WI on Monday or Wednesday 8-12

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Where can I get my water tested?

UW Extension office at 120 W. Conant St., Portage

bottles are picked up at this office, you collect the water sample,
you send in the sample and payment for the tests to the State Lab of Hygiene

State Lab of Hygiene - call (608) 262-8813

***call them directly to obtain a bottle - payment is also made to them

UW-Steven's Point - call (715) 346-4270 or http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/gndwater/privatewells/index.htm

-they test for a variety of contaminants in well water

-call for information on the tests that can be done and the costs
Private well testers - check your phone book

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Fluoride

*Cambria, Friesland, Poynette, Randolph, & Wyocena do NOT add fluoride to their water. The water in these municipalities has insufficient fluoride for children's dental health. All other municipal systems in Columbia County are fluoridated. Do NOT take additional fluoride supplements if using fluoridated water.

*MOBILE HOME PARKS:

Fall View Estates - use fluoridated Fall River water
Riverview - use fluoridated Columbus water

*SANITARY DISTRICT:

Harmony Grove uses fluoridated water

For more information on Fluoride see the Columbia County Health Fluoride Page..

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Water Treatment Units

Call the Division of Health for information at 608-742-9274

NSF International Web site: www.nsf.org

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