Electricity & Gas
A single company, WE Energies, provides both electricity and gas to Pheasant Run. It may be contacted 24 hours a day at 800-242-9137 or on its website.
In emergencies, for gas contact 800-261-5325 or for electricity 800-662-4797. To check or report an outage, visit the utility’s outage page.
New Pheasant-Run residents requesting service and who are not previously WE customers must verify their identity using before service will be provided. Call 800-242-9137 for more information. If you are yet to move to the area and cannot submit your ID personally, it may be faxed to 414-221-4090.
WE Energies, part of the WEC Energy Group, which provides electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the area. The company operates power plants fueled by natural gas, coal, and renewable energy sources, including wind and solar. WE Energies has invested in modernizing its grid and improving energy efficiency, ensuring reliable service for Brookfield residents.
In addition to traditional energy sources, WE Energies is expanding its renewable energy portfolio to meet Wisconsin’s growing demand for clean energy. The company is actively involved in reducing carbon emissions through programs that promote solar energy and energy efficiency in homes and businesses. We Energies also offers customers options like renewable energy credits and green energy programs, allowing Brookfield residents to contribute to a more sustainable future.
Water
Pheasant Run is provided with well water service by the City of Brookfield and is also served by
the Brookfield Sewerage District.
Water and sewage costs are paid by the Association. Residents are asked to minimize leaks both to keep water costs down for the whole community and because the result of leaks can affect immediately adjacent properties. This is particularly true for those who are away for extended periods of time. For example, a leaking toilet can lead to thousands of lost gallons of water every month. If you have a standard 1.5 gallon toilet, it takes approximately 30 seconds for the tank to refill from a standard flush. So that’s 1.5 gallons per flush or per 30 seconds, or 3 gallons per minute. For all 1,440 minutes per day, that is up to 4,320 gallons of wasted water! If you left your leaky toilet running this way for an entire week, you’d waste 30,240 gallons of water, the cost of which has to be borne by the community.
The Brookfield Water Utility maintains 23 well sites throughout the City and has 3 pressure zones. All of our water comes from these wells and is considered groundwater. The City does not receive Lake Michigan water.
Our water is considered very hard and almost all Pheasant Run residents use a whole-house water softener and many also operate a reverse osmosis system to further purify drinking water.
Waste Water
Brookfield is geographically unique because the city straddles the sub-continental divide.
Sewage flows originating on the eastern side of the city flow to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), are treated there and are discharged to Lake Michigan, eventually ending up in the Atlantic Ocean.
That from the western “half” of the city, where we live, flows to the Fox River Water Pollution Control Center (FRWPCC) operated by the City of Brookfield. Effluent from the plant discharges to the Fox River (Illinois Fox basin) ending up in the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
The FRWPCC is an activated sludge plant with tertiary filtration and was designed for an average daily flow of 12.5 million gallons per day. The plant can handle peak wet weather flows of 50 million gallons per day. This regional facility also treats some or all of the flows from the communities of the Village of Menomonee Falls, the Village of Pewaukee, the City of Pewaukee, Lake Pewaukee Sanitary District and the Town of Brookfield Sanitary District #4.
This plant was originally constructed in 1974 to treat flows of 5 MGD. Major expansions in 1985 and 2000 bought it up to its current capacity.