The city and five neighboring communities

Basement Waterproofing Service Areas Around Milwaukee, WI

Requests are accepted from Milwaukee, WI and five nearby communities in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. Each one goes to a single independent local contractor, who makes contact and writes any estimate; this site performs no basement work in any of them.

Serving Milwaukee and Nearby Towns

This page shows where requests are accepted, not where anyone from this site works. The City of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee County seat on Lake Michigan, sits at the center. Within city limits, building permits go through the Permit & Development Center, 809 N. Broadway, 1st Floor, (414) 286-8210, and the City Clerk's License Division, (414) 286-2238, licenses home improvement contractors. Water backing up inside a home is reported to the Department of Neighborhood Services at 414-286-2268, and a backup in the street to 414-286-CITY (2489).

The five places below are separate cities and villages, not Milwaukee neighborhoods, and each runs its own permit office and sanitary sewers. Wisconsin's contract, lien-waiver, cancel and plumbing rules, the State's Dwelling Contractor credentials and the DATCP Consumer Protection Hotline, (800) 422-7128, apply in every one of them.

Aerial view of tree-lined streets of homes along the Lake Michigan shoreline

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Put in your city, village or ZIP code. The box below tells you whether requests from that address can be passed along.

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Whitefish Bay, WI. A lakeshore village about 5 miles north, incorporated in 1892 as Milwaukee County's first village, where about 84% of homes predate 1960. Village Hall, 414-962-6690, takes permit and backup questions; the village cleans its own separate sewer lines, and MMSD treats the flow.
Wauwatosa, WI. About 6.5 miles west-northwest on the Menomonee River, a city since 1897 with 48,649 people. Building & Safety answers permit questions at (414) 479-8907. Public Works Operations, (414) 471-8422, looks after the city-owned sanitary sewers, while owners are responsible for the lateral up to and including its connection at the main.
West Allis, WI. About 6 miles west-southwest and the largest of the five at 60,119 people; it grew around the Allis-Chalmers works and became a city in 1906. The Building and Sign Division is reached through the City line, 414-302-2489, at City Hall, 7525 W. Greenfield Ave. The city keeps its own separate sewers, and MMSD treats the flow.
South Milwaukee, WI. About 9 miles south-southeast, a separate city laid out in 1891, not Milwaukee's South Side. Its Inspection Department, (414) 768-8054, 2424 15th Avenue, issues permits, and the city operates its own Wastewater Treatment Facility, which takes sewer emergency reports at (414) 768-8180.
Menomonee Falls, WI. About 14 miles northwest in Waukesha County, the most-populous village in Wisconsin. Residential permits and inspections are handled at 262-532-4200, W156 N8480 Pilgrim Road. The village maintains 232 miles of gravity sewers and 10 pumping stations, and MMSD treats the flow.

The City's DNS, DPW and License Division lines serve Milwaukee addresses only. In the five communities above, bring permit and sewer questions to the local office listed.

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If your address isn't on this page, you can still send a request from elsewhere in Greater Milwaukee; the area check shows whether it can be passed along. Before anyone visits, write down your questions about permits, credentials and the written contract.

Where a contractor is able to respond, expect contact about a visit and, after that, a price on paper. A contractor's flat advertising fee may support this site, while your request is free and carries no reward.

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