Milwaukee County
Water treatment across Milwaukee County
The North Shore and Wauwatosa run on Lake Michigan water at roughly eight grains, the softest tap water in this market, and still “hard” on the USGS scale. Here the honest recommendation is usually carbon and a drinking-water tap before a softener, and River Hills and Bayside are largely on wells anyway.
Why the North Shore is not one number
The North Shore and Wauwatosa run on Lake Michigan water at roughly eight grains, the softest tap water in this market, and still “hard” on the USGS scale. Here the honest recommendation is usually carbon and a drinking-water tap before a softener, and River Hills and Bayside are largely on wells anyway.
4 of the 6 towns below publish a hardness figure we can cite, and they are on the table at hard water in Wisconsin with the source named beside each one.
River Hills and Bayside publish no usable figure, because the water there is largely private. Those pages say so plainly and route you to a free test, which is the honest answer and also the better one.
Whole-house softening and carbon is the complete home system, sized from your measured water rather than a county average. The kitchen tap is handled separately by reverse osmosis, and where iron is more than a trace it gets its own stage.
Towns we serve
Milwaukee County, town by town
Each page carries that town’s own utility, water source and published hardness, not a regional average.
Whitefish Bay
~8 grains per gallon published
Whitefish Bay water →
Fox Point
~8 grains per gallon published
Fox Point water →
Glendale
~8 grains per gallon published
Glendale water →
Wauwatosa
~8 grains per gallon published
Wauwatosa water →
River Hills
No published figure. We read your tap
River Hills water →
Bayside
No published figure. We read your tap
Bayside water →Three things you get in writing
“Trust us” isn’t a policy. These are.
Every one of these is a document you can hold before you owe anything.
A free water test anywhere in Milwaukee County.
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Free, at your kitchen table
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We read your water at your own tap, then quote it on one itemized page.
- We test. Hardness, iron, chlorine and TDS, read on the spot in front of you. Nothing leaves for a lab.
- We quote. One page, itemized, good for 30 days. Take it, compare it, sleep on it.
- A licensed plumber installs. Its own scheduled visit, permits pulled. A morning’s work.
- We retest to zero. On a softener install, the same test again, and you watch the number land.
In writing, before you sign: Wisconsin’s three-business-day right to cancel an in-home sale, no final payment until the system is installed and verified, and the complete written warranty. Terms apply.