Louisville Water Company is working to improve the sidewalk and curbs in front of the Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant. The work is expected to last approximately 3 months. This project has required the LWC to close and construct a temporary sidewalk in the far-right lane of eastbound Frankfort Avenue. This is the lane the parents currently use to queue up for carpool at Field Elementary. The construction area is in front of the main entrance of the plant in the white painted hash marks on Frankfort Avenue.
LWC is starting this project now because the KY Transportation Cabinet has plans to place permanent delineators on Frankfort Avenue where the current hash marks are located. Delineators are flexible posts that are designed to restrict traffic or parking along a roadway. The temporary project restrictions essentially mimic the same traffic pattern that will be permanently in place after the delineators are installed. To minimize the impact to traffic, LWC will continue to have police officers on site helping to direct traffic during our project.
Carpool drivers should continue queuing up in the far-right lane on Frankfort Avenue. When moving around the barriers, please use extreme caution when merging into the outside thru lane. To avoid stopping in the outside lane, motorists will have to carefully gauge the available space before moving back into the right lane.
Additional Louisville Water Company Upcoming Projects
Crescent Hill Carbon Storage Silos
- The Environmental Protection Agency has set new regulatory standards for the treatment of PFAS.
- PFAS or per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a group of manufactured chemicals that do not naturally occur.
- Louisville Water is currently in compliance with the proposed regulations, however our history of innovation and staying in front of all drinking water standards is driving us to develop extra treatment standards for removing PFAS.
- Our strategy is to treat PFAS with powder activated carbon (PAC). PAC is effective at removing the PFAS we experience in our source water. PAC is also effective in removing other compounds that greatly improve the quality of our finished water.
- To implement this strategy, it is necessary to construct additional storage capacity and upgrade the existing PAC feed system.
- Three storage silos will be constructed within our existing fence line, parallel to the RR tracks along Frankfort Avenue between Pennsylvania and Reservoir Avenue
- The silos will be constructed with a brick façade and will be approximately 60 feet tall.
- Construction is expected to start in June/July of 2025 and will take approximately 10-12 months to complete.
Redundant Pump Station
- Louisville Water is constructing a redundant pump station to improve the reliability of our water service.
- Once constructed we can update the existing pump station and piping system that provides water to most of Louisville
- Pump Station will be approximately 4,000 square feet and about 40 feet tall, which is several feet lower that the existing pump station
- The exterior will be architecturally similar to the existing security building at our Stilz Avenue entrance and designed to compliment the architecture of the original pump station
- Construction is expected to start in January
- The most noticeable construction activity will be hoe-ramming to remove rock This is expected to last 3-6 months (we will NOT be blasting)
- Overall construction will take approximately 2 years
Smokestack Painting/Cellular Equipment
- Louisville Water has a project to repaint the existing smokestack.
- Painting is expected to start in March of 2025
- The existing tower has multiple cellular antennas attached to the smokestack that must be temporarily removed to allow for the painting
- This will require the placement of two temporary cell towers. One will be located near the fountain and the second will be near our entrance off of Stilz
- The temporary towers will go up around the first of the year and will be in place for approximately 6 months .
- Once the smokestack painting is complete the cellular antennas will be placed back onto the smokestack and the temporary cell towers will be removed