Employers in the water industry met with jobseekers at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources office in Milwaukee on Wednesday to increase exposure for infrastructure jobs and address growing vacancies in the water sector. 

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Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson has named Patrick Pauly as superintendent of the Milwaukee Water Works.

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The workforce development group Employ Milwaukee is receiving $2 million from the federal government to train people in the construction and plumbing trades for the Milwaukee Water Works.

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Milwaukee Water Works Superintendent Karen Dettmer has taken over as interim commissioner of the city's Department of Public Works.

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Milwaukee leaders say they want to investigate whether houses built between in the decade before the city started requiring service lines to be made of copper are getting drinking water from lead pipes.

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Milwaukee officials said Friday that they are planning to require property owners to replace lead pipes running beneath their lots because local residents too often pass on opportunities to get rid of the service lines on their own.

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Experts, and even some regulators, say existing laws are failing to protect Wisconsin and the nation from harmful exposure to lead that leaches into drinking water from aging plumbing — a danger shown by the public-health emergency in Flint, Mich.

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Milwaukee Water Works will begin repairs Friday on a leaky pipe that has caused 82 water main breaks since Saturday.

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A Milwaukee Water Works roofing project bid request has been amended again, bumping the small-business enterprise requirement back up to its original 20 percent.

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Milwaukee will spend an estimated $760,000 to repair water main breaks after a leaky pipe forced the city to close one of its two treatment plants.

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