Photo: Tgkrause · CC BY-SA 3.0Living in Brodhead, WI: what to set up and who to call
Brodhead runs its own electric utility, Brodhead Water & Lighting Comm; its homes paid 13.5¢ per kWh in 2025. Friday is trash day in Brodhead; Pellitteri Waste Systems collects.
I’m new in town
What to set up in Brodhead, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.
Power, water and internet
Who to call to start service at a new address in Brodhead.
Power comes from Brodhead Water & Lighting Comm
Brodhead Water & Lighting Comm (Brodhead Water & Lighting Comm), a municipal utility, serves 97.5% of Brodhead residents. Its homes paid an average of 13.5¢ per kWh in 2025, about $96 a month (its average across Wisconsin).
Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.
Water comes from Brodhead Waterworks
Brodhead Waterworks supplies almost all of Brodhead. It draws ground water and serves 3,216 people in all.
No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 78% of the 7,966 systems serving 1,001–3,300 people.
The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jun–Sep 2023, was 1.0 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. That’s higher than 53% of similar systems’ latest results.
The system’s full record: EPA ECHO report
EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts (violations pulled Oct 9, 2026) and ECHO (lead samples, 2026Q3); service area: EPA Community Water System Service Area Boundaries v3.0 (EPA’s estimate). Violations are counted by the start of their compliance period. WI1230072.
5 home internet providers serve Brodhead
96% of 1,346 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 80% can get fiber.
| Provider | Technology | Addresses | Fastest (Mbps) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spectrum | Cable, Fiber | 96% | 1,000/1,000 |
| Frontier | Fiber, DSL | 83% | 7,000/7,000 |
| Bug Tussel | Fixed wireless | 100% | 50/8 |
| LiteWire | Fixed wireless | 100% | 100/25 |
| T-Mobile | Fixed wireless | 82% | 100/20 |
FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.
Trash day in Brodhead is Friday
Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Brodhead, from the town’s own site.
This month
- TrashEvery week
- RecyclingEvery other week · which week: cms2.revize.com
- Bulky itemsCall to book
Accepted at the curb
- Cardboard (empty)
- Catalogs, magazines & phone books
- Cereal & cracker boxes (empty)
- Envelopes & junk mail
- Holiday gift wrapping paper (no foils)
- Newspapers
- Paper egg cartons
- Paper grocery bags
- Paper milk and juice cartons or boxes
- Pizza boxes (empty)
- All plastic bottles (no motor oils or gasoline)
- Plastic containers/cups #1-7
- Glass bottles & jars (clear, blue, brown or green translucent glass)
- Aluminum cans & aluminum pie plates
- Tin & steel cans
From cms2.revize.com, cityofbrodheadwi.gov, the town’s official site, checked Oct 21, 2026. Rules change: the town’s page is the last word. .
Where your child goes to school
Public school districts and the school path by grade.
Brodhead is in Brodhead School District.
B−School gradeSee Schools →U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.
Town hall and registering to vote
Who to call, and how to register.
Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Jun 2025; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Brodhead is in ZIP code 53520
ZIP codes where Brodhead residents live, with the share of the town in each.
| ZIP | Post office name | Share of Brodhead | ZIP’s residents in Brodhead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53520 | Brodhead, WI | 100% | 49% |
Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.
Getting around, the ER and the library
One line each; the subject pages have the rest.
ER: CMS hospital data. Library: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024.
Questions about living in Brodhead
Who supplies Brodhead’s drinking water, and has it had violations?
Brodhead Waterworks (EPA ID WI1230072). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 78% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 1.0 ppb (Jun–Sep 2023), against a 15 ppb action level.
Who provides electricity in Brodhead?
Brodhead Water & Lighting Comm (Brodhead Water & Lighting Comm), a municipal utility. Its homes paid about 13.5¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA).
What internet providers serve Brodhead?
Spectrum, Frontier, Bug Tussel, LiteWire, T-Mobile (FCC, as of December 2025).
What ZIP codes are in Brodhead?
53520. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.
What school district is Brodhead in?
Brodhead School District.
How do I register to vote in Brodhead?
In Wisconsin you can register online until 20 days before Election Day, in person up to and including Election Day, or by mail (postmarked 20 days before). Elections here are run by the City of Brodhead Clerk. Check your registration at myvote.wi.gov.
Sources & dates
Every answer above names its source. Here they are with their dates.
- Water: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled Oct 9, 2026), ECHO SDWA 2026Q3, EPA CWS Service Area Boundaries v3.0.
- Power: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map Aug 2023); EIA-861 final 2025.
- Trash: Brodhead’s own website (cms2.revize.com, cityofbrodheadwi.gov), read Oct 21, 2026, pickup and drop-off facts extracted and checked against the page they came from.
- ZIP codes: Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files; GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0).
- Schools: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.
- Registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024 (read Oct 10, 2026). Official sites and area codes: Wikidata.
- Election office: FVAP local election office directory (fetched Oct 10, 2026; each record dated), EAC EAVS 2024 jurisdictions; registration and lookup links from vote.gov’s state data, checked Oct 10, 2026.
- Internet: FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025.