Children's Health Defense By Nina B. Elkadi
Since the day he moved into his new home, Tyler Frye’s well water has been too contaminated to drink without costly filtration. In March 2022, he paid $370,000 for a brand-new house in Casco, Wisconsin — only to later discover his private well’s water was unsafe to drink.
Frye’s story is far from unique, with an estimated 10% of Wisconsin residents facing similar contamination in their wells.
“I bought the house assuming that it was a new house. I didn’t think there would be any problems,” he says. “I took advantage of nitrate testing the county was advertising on the news, and found out my well was testing at 26.6 milligrams per liter for nitrate.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets the maximum safe level for nitrate in U.S. drinking water at 10 milligrams per liter (mg/L). Consuming too much nitrate can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases, and some experts warn that those risks may even occur below the regulatory limit…
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