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Article: Lake water quest dries up <> Elm Grove instead will look at tapping into Brookfield groundwater
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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An Elm Grove request for Lake Michigan water is on hold and the
village is seeking to buy groundwater instead from Brookfield, after
Milwaukee's water utility rejected Elm Grove's plan to run new water
lines to Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Water Works has concluded that although it is
technically feasible to install new mains along Blue Mound Road to
connect Elm Grove and Milwaukee, which share no border, Elm Grove
instead should tap into existing mains in Wauwatosa or West Allis,
possibly in a joint deal with Brookfield.
Running new lines along Blue Mound Road would cost $2.7 million
to $3.8 million and tear up a busy corridor that recently was
repaved, said Carrie Lewis, Milwaukee Water Works' ...