From the March 14th Lake Country Reporter

Because soil test results confirm a chemical seeping into residential wells is coming from the Quad/Graphics property off Duplainville Road, the company is offering reimbursement to homeowners hooking up to city water.

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From the March 21st Lake Country Reporter

Some city officials are facing tough questioning about how the final costs for the City Hall expansion project exceeded estimates by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Form the March 9th Lake Country Reporter

The city will likely get out of the weed-cutting business on Pewaukee Lake.

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From the March 9th, 2006 Lake Country Reporter

The Common Council president's pay will not increase this year, despite last-minute approval during budget talks last November, because the process did not follow state law.

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From the February 28, 2006 Lake Country Reporter

A recent land sale between a Town of Brookfield property owner and the City of Pewaukee for a Pewaukee fire station is one reason a group of Town of Brookfield property owners must refile a petition to annex their land to the City of Brookfield.

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From the February 23, 2006 Lack Country Reporter
After failing to appear at a court hearing Friday, former City of Pewaukee Alderman Anthony Balistreri threatened his family and considered suicide. He was arrested on an open bench warrant Monday.
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This link is for the Radon removal system the City of Pewaukee has chosen to use to remove radon from our municipal well located on Green Road. Federal law now requires that each well in the system meet stringent radon limits and be operational by the end of 2006. Previously, the Federal law allowed mixing of wells with lower Radon levels with ones of higher levels to obtain a lower overall level. This is now changed to require each well to meet the 5 picocuries per liter limit.

The Water Remediation Technology, LLC located in Colorado process has been selected by the City of Pewaukee to process the water from the Green Road well. This process uses a chemical bed made up of WRT’s Z-88™ patent pending treatment media in a series of up flow treatment vessels to reduce gross alpha and remove radium 226 and 228 from the water. The media absorbs the Radium from the water. When the bed is loaded with Radium, it is removed from the tank and transported to a licensed low level radio active storage disposal location and new Z-88 added to the large tank. The Z-88™ process media is ANSI/NSF Standard 61 certified for use in drinking water.

It is estimated that the cost of this installation will be over $1,000,000 and will be covered by the City of Pewaukee’s water utility. Other lower cost systems have been considered, but they require a sewer for the process waste which includes the Radium. Since the cost of bringing a sewer to the Green Road well is estimated to be well over the $1,000,000 , the WRT process was selected as being the best solution.

This report was prepared by the provider of the system. It is not light reading. We have posted it for all you "technical" people who may find it interesting. It shows that results of a pilot test project reduced the Radium from 7.4 to 0.7 picocuries per liter. The process is very simple and requires little maintenance.

This is a 14 page pdf file.

To read the study go to:
http://www.wrtnet.com/pdf/Pewaukee_City.pdf

Pewaukee buys 2 acres for possible city fire station
By LISA SINK and MIKE JOHNSON
lsink@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Feb. 23, 2006

From the February 24. Journal Sentinal. To read entire article go to:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=403708

Lake agency should cut weeds, group says. City of Pewaukee took over task in 2004

Pewaukeeans for Better Government said it will demand Monday night that the city turn over lake weed harvesting to the Lake Pewaukee Sanitary District.

To read entire Journal Sentinal article go to:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=402108&date=2/16/2006
February 16, 2006

Pewaukee aldermen put off decision, say more data is needed


To read entire February 21, 2006 Journal Sentinal article go to:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=402994