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Pewaukee committee says Lisbon water request likely delayed by at least 2–3 years
Summary
Village of Lisbon asked Pewaukee to extend municipal water to a small southeast area; public works staff said PFAS, radium and reduced well capacity mean service likely cannot be provided for 2–3 years absent capacity improvements.
Pewaukee’s Public Works Committee discussed a request from the village of Lisbon for municipal water service to a small area in Lisbon’s southeast quadrant and concluded the city cannot provide immediate service because of current water-quality and capacity limitations.
Public works staff told the committee Lisbon paid for a study and asked Pewaukee to consider serving the area. The staff member said the city has “concerns with our system, with the PFAS and the radium and the reduced capacity at a couple of our wells” and added, “we would be able to ultimately service this area that they're requesting, but it wouldn't be for 2 to 3 years before we'd be able to provide that service.”
The request is partly driven by quarry activity in the area. The staff member said Lisbon had been pursuing multiple options, including talking with the village of Sussex, and that the quarry is sharing some costs for extensions because blasting is expected to affect local wells. The staff member summarized Lisbon’s timing as: “they were looking for service in, basically, in the next year.”
Committee members pressed on whether the city’s distribution layout (loops) would allow the extension; staff said the network configuration is workable but firm capacity is the limiting factor. The committee discussed that any extension would require looping the new mains (coming along Lisbon Road and down Redford) so the system would not be served by a single dead end.
No formal vote or binding commitment was made. Committee members agreed the most the committee could do at present is follow up with Lisbon’s new administrator and re-open discussions if Lisbon remains interested after reviewing the city’s report. The staff member noted the city had not pursued signing the DOT agreement when the village’s response lagged and indicated that timing windows for DOT paperwork had closed.
The committee did not set a timetable for further action; staff said they are awaiting Lisbon’s reply to the city's study and will return to the committee if Lisbon wants Pewaukee to pursue service under the time frame in the report.
