Municipal waterworks operators
Municipal waterworks operators play a vital role in providing a safe and plentiful supply of drinking water to local water utility customers throughout Wisconsin. Water utility operators wear many different hats as they collect, treat and distribute water to users.
Maintaining, inspecting, sampling and repairing drinking water systems is critical to ensuring a safe and adequate supply of water. To verify that drinking water systems are operating effectively, the DNR performs sanitary surveys at each municipal water system every three years.
The following DNR resources are available to Wisconsin municipal waterworks operators:
- Wisconsin DNR sanitary survey resources
- Waterworks operator certification
- Municipal drinking water system disinfection
- Example wellhead protection ordinances
- Water System Security
- A Template for Preparing Wellhead Protection Plans for Municipal Wells
- Drinking water security and emergency preparedness
- Water and wastewater funding sources
- Public water system plan review
- Wisconsin's Capacity Development Program
- Source water protection
- Instructions for creating and customizing a Consumer Confidence Report using DNR's CCR generator
- Drinking Water and Groundwater publications
- Public Water System (PWS) Data Viewer
Sanitary survey resources
Additional resources
- Wisconsin Rural Water Association [exit DNR]
- Rural Community Assistance Partnership [exit DNR]
- American Water Works Association [exit DNR]
- Voluntary drinking water PFAS sampling project for municipal systems
Contact information - for information about requirements for your drinking water system, contact your department representative or the DNR public drinking water staff assigned to your county: