The Pewaukee Chapter of Walleyes for Tomorrow – A big Success
What started with a small group of Pewaukee Volunteers wanting to help the declining and almost disappearing walleye population in Pewaukee Lake has turned into a huge success story. The group was deemed the fastest growing non-profit organization in Wisconsin...
PEWAUKEE LAKE MANAGEMENT PLANNING
The Lake Pewaukee Sanitary District has hired the Southeastern Regional Planning Commission to update the Pewaukee Lake Management and Watershed Protection Plan. The plan will be the 3rd iteration of the original plan. The first Public meeting was on June 25, 2014 at...
Sewer Operation News
The District has once again solved some infiltration and problems that lead to extra clear water flows that were coming from a private development on the west end of the lake. This will help reduce flows and costs. HOWEVER, now is the time the illegal sump pumps show...
Please Don’t Cause Sewer Alarms – They Cost You Money
The pump chart below shows a long pump run at station #7, which means the pump has debris caught up in it. These long pump runs eventually cause pump failures. Flushing rags and other debris (like feminine products) down the toilet creates alarms and emergency calls...
Sewer Pipes Do Not Like Cleaning Rags
This time of year we can have sewer pump clogging issues typically due to cleaning up homes and throwing the rags into the toilet. Don’t just guess that the rags are toilet friendly. All rags and disposable towels seem to cause problems; none of them are pump...
Lake Clean-up Summary 2013
It was another heavy year with the aquatic plants on the lake. Clean-up crews worked through October cutting, picking up shorelines and doing pile pick up. We have included a chart that shows the volume of aquatic plants taken out of the lake over the years and how...
Lake Equipment
The Harvesters (weed cutters) are Yellow. They are cutting on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Typically “as a rule of thumb” the harvesters do not cut on Fridays so we can focus on cleaning up the cut weeds (the floaters) to prep the lake for the...