History of Great Water

2022


Working with regional water providers, Louisville Water helps secure $35 million in funding to support regional growth with new infrastructure.

2021


Louisville Water collaborates with Louisville Metro and other agencies to distribute $6.5 million for one-time credits to customers who struggle to pay their water bill during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020


The COVID-19 pandemic halts regular business operations, but Louisville Water manages through the pandemic with safety measures that allow us to continue to produce and deliver high-quality drinking water.

2019


Louisville Water expands its footprint with the completion of a pipeline project to deliver water to customers in Shelbyville.

2017


Louisville Water Company provides safe, clean, great-tasting water to almost one million people.

2015


Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant also receives the Phase IV Excellence in Water Treatment award. Both B.E. Payne and Crescent Hill now rank as two of the top 19 treatment plants in North America.

 

2011


Riverbank Filtration Project named “Best Civil Engineering Project in the World.”

 

2010


B.E. Payne Water Treatment Plant receives the Phase IV Excellence in Water Treatment award from the Partnership for Safe Water.

 

2009


Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant phases gravel out of filtering process.

2008


American Water Works Association names Louisville Pure Tap® as the “Best-tasting tap water in America.”

1997


Louisville Water trademarks its drinking water as Louisville Pure Tap®

 

1957


Anthracite coal is added to the sand and gravel filters.

1917


U.S. Government calls Louisville’s water quality “unexcelled.”

1914


Chlorine added as a disinfectant.

1909


Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant opens and Louisvillians get “clear, wholesome” water.

1898


Hermany designs the Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant for six sand and gravel filters.

1896


George Warren Fuller begins landmark experiments in filtration at Louisville Water.

 

1879


Crescent Hill Reservoir opens to allow additional mud to settle from river water.

1866


Chief Engineer Charles Hermany begins the quest for pure water by declaring his desire to filter Ohio River water.

1860


Louisville Water Company, then known as “The Water Works,” first pumps water to 512 customers.