Shorewood, Milwaukee County
Water softener installation in Shorewood, WI
About 8 grains per gallon · Shorewood’s published figure
Shorewood runs its own water utility and treats none of the water in it. The village buys Milwaukee’s lake supply and maintains the pipes, so the number at your tap is Milwaukee’s.
Your water
Where Shorewood gets its water
Shorewood is served by Shorewood Water Works, which buys its water from Milwaukee Water Works. The village owns and maintains the mains inside its limits and fills them with finished Lake Michigan water bought from Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Water Works, the supplier, publishes 137 mg/L across a 112–142 range.
Shorewood’s own report carries no hardness figure. Its water is Milwaukee’s, which Milwaukee Water Works publishes at 137 milligrams per liter across a 112 to 142 range, about 8 grains per gallon, and describes as moderately hard.
Source: Shorewood Water Works, Water Distribution System page; Milwaukee Water Works published hardness
What Shorewood homes usually need
- Free quote by phone
- Installed by a licensed WI plumber
- Softeners retested to zero
$3,950 installed for the ZeroGrain One: softener, activated carbon and the reverse-osmosis drinking tap. Installation by an independent licensed Wisconsin plumbing contractor is in that number, not added to it, and the date is set once the equipment is in hand and approved for use in Wisconsin (SPS 384). What a softener costs explains what the $3,950 includes. Swapping out an old unit is replacing a softener; the drinking tap is reverse osmosis installation.
Get your free quote
Takes about thirty seconds. We call you back the same or next business day.
In writing
Three things you get in writing
Every one of these is written on the quote or the agreement, not a promise on a call.
3 days
To change your mind
Three business days to cancel after you sign. Two copies of the cancellation notice come with the contract, filled in and dated.
0
Balance due before the install is complete
The agreement puts full payment at the completion of the install: the system in, running and your water retested at your tap.
30 days
The quote holds
One itemized page with every model named, so you can compare it against anyone.
A closer look
The ZeroGrain One, up close
The system in product renders: the softening tank and its brine tank, the drinking-water tap, and what is inside the tank, on one sheet.
Questions
Shorewood water questions
Anything that is not here, ask it on the call.
Softening removes hardness minerals. It is not a health or safety treatment and we do not market it as one. On a private well, Wisconsin’s state-certified lab tests for bacteria and nitrates are a separate matter and not something we sell.
A small utility with a good record
Shorewood Water Works is a self-financing enterprise owned by the village, and in 2018 it received the Utility Excellence Award from the Wisconsin section of the American Water Works Association. The water in its mains is Milwaukee’s, at about 8 grains; what varies is the plumbing between the main and your fixture.
Softening is optional here
At about 8 grains, with Milwaukee Water Works itself saying softeners are not necessary for residential use, the whole-home system may not be worth it, and the call will say so. The reverse-osmosis tap comes with the whole-home softener, not on its own.
How does the quote work in Shorewood?
We start from the number, not from a catalog: what Shorewood publishes, and what your house needs. One short call puts the two together, at no charge. If the numbers justify softening we size it from them; if they point away from softening, the call says so plainly. On install day the plumber reads hardness, iron, chlorine and TDS at your tap before anything is connected, and on a softener install retests hardness at the end so you watch it read zero.
Free quote, by phone
A free quote by phone, anywhere in Shorewood.
One short call, about fifteen minutes. We size from your town’s published number, or your well’s lab result, and your household, and you end the call with a one-page itemized quote.
- Free quote by phone
- Installed by a licensed WI plumber
- Softeners retested to zero