Published: July 27, 2011
Tags: common council, Grant Langley, insurance, Joe Davis, Kathryn Block, lateral, Linda Uliss Burke, Milwaukee, Nik Kovac, sewer, Tom Barrett, Utility Service Partners, warranty
By James Briggs The city of Milwaukee has agreed to endorse a private insurance company in exchange for money. As a result, Pennsylvania-based Utility Service Partners Inc. can use the city‘s logo in direct-mail marketing pitches to city residents, despite concerns raised among several Common Council members and Mayor Tom Barrett, who vetoed the arrangement [...]
Published: May 2, 2011
Tags: 60th Street, Harnack, lateral, National Avenue, Pierce Street, R.A. Smith, Rodger Bergeron, Underground Pipeline Construction, West Allis, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT, Zignego
Published: May 20, 2010
Tags: foundation drain, Fox Point, Graffin, Greenfield, infiltration, inflow, lateral, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Neitzke, sanitary sewers, Susan Robertson
By Sean Ryan Greenfield’s mayor is fighting a regional push to disconnect drainpipes from the foundations of old homes. Hundreds of homes in the city would require pipe disconnections, Mayor Michael Neitzke said. Those homes are on private property, the lateral connections to sewers were legal when they were installed and such an undertaking would [...]
