Private wells
Well water treatment, read house by house
Roughly 40,000 Waukesha County homes are on private wells, and most of Delafield, Richfield and River Hills besides. A private well has no annual report and no utility sampling schedule. The only number that exists is the one somebody measures.
What county wells draw
Groundwater here moves through dolomite and sandstone, and USGS surveys classify most of it as very hard: 15 to 30 grains per gallon is a normal reading, with iron along for the ride in much of the region. That is orange staining in tubs, scale in heaters, and soap that never quite lathers.
How much it varies is the part people underestimate. Delafield’s two municipal wells, sampled the same day, read 240 and 400 milligrams per liter: 14.0 grains and 23.4. If two municipal wells a few thousand feet apart differ that much, two private wells on the same road can too.
A word about the deep aquifer
The deep sandstone aquifer under Waukesha County has a documented history of naturally occurring radium; it is the reason the City of Waukesha spent a decade winning Lake Michigan water. Private wells vary enormously by depth and location.
We test hardness, iron, chlorine and TDS at your table. For bacteria and nitrates we recommend Wisconsin’s state-certified labs and can point you to them. Those lab tests are not something we sell, and any honest water company will tell you the same.
Treating a well house
Well water is where sizing matters most, because hardness and iron vary house by house rather than neighborhood by neighborhood. A system specified from your actual numbers handles both in one pass at the point of entry, and a reverse-osmosis tap finishes the drinking water at the sink. Where iron is more than a trace it gets its own stage ahead of the softener.
After the install we run the same test again and you watch the hardness read zero. That is the standard the job has to meet before we call it done.
Every well is different. Read yours, for nothing.
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We read your water at your own tap, then quote it on one itemized page. It costs nothing either way.
- 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.