Richfield, Washington County
Richfield water, by the numbers
Richfield passed a groundwater protection ordinance in 2004, the first municipal plan of its kind in Wisconsin, precisely because the whole village drinks from the ground. There is no utility average here to fall back on. Only your own well.
Where Richfield’s water comes from
Richfield is served by no municipal water utility at all. Every home is on a private well, drawing from sand and gravel deposits that the village’s own groundwater program describes as unconfined or at worst semi-confined.
There is no published Richfield figure because there is no Richfield utility. Residents are on private wells, and the Village has expressly opposed starting a municipal system. No annual report, no utility sampling schedule, and no one whose job it is to notice when your water changes.
Source: Village of Richfield groundwater monitoring program; Village Board position on municipal utility
Unconfined aquifers respond to the surface
The village’s own groundwater program describes most of Richfield as underlain by sand and gravel in direct or nearly direct contact with the ground surface, which makes the aquifers unconfined or at best semi-confined. Water like that responds faster to what happens above it than deep sandstone does, and it is why the village monitors it at all.
Which makes a current reading the only honest input
We read hardness and iron together at your kitchen tap, plus pH and TDS, because those four numbers pick the media, size the tank and set the backwash schedule. For bacteria and nitrates we point you at Wisconsin’s state-certified labs; those are not something we sell.
What we would actually do here
The same thing we do everywhere: read your tap before recommending anything. Hardness, iron, chlorine and TDS, on the spot, in front of you, at no charge. If the numbers justify softening we size it from them; if they point at a drinking-water tap instead, that is what the quote says. On a softener install we run the same test at the end and you watch it read zero.
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.
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A free water test at your Richfield kitchen table.
Get a quote
Free, at your kitchen table
Book a Richfield visit
About an hour, at your own table. We read what your Richfield tap actually runs and quote from that, not from a county average.
- 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.