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Board of Water Works Approves 2025 Budget for Louisville Water
Providing high-quality, reliable drinking water is the primary reason Louisville Water exists. We are an anchor in the community, and we take great pride in our responsibility.
Investing in our infrastructure- which includes more than 4,300 miles of water main, pumping stations, storage tanks, and two award-winning treatment plants- is critical to producing and delivering 129 million gallons of Louisville Pure Tap® to nearly a million people every day.
Today, the Board of Water Works, the governing body for Louisville Water, approved the 2025 operating and capital budgets. These budgets guide the company’s work in infrastructure and include water rates for all customer classes.
While facing increases in the costs for chemicals, power, contractual services, and insurance, we’ve managed to minimize the impact on our customers. Beginning January 1, residential customers will see a monthly average increase of $1.20. To put that in perspective, the average customer who uses 4,000 gallons of water a month can expect to pay $29.37 for Louisville Water Services. That means one gallon of Louisville Pure Tap still costs less than a penny.
The 2025 capital budget of $191 million is the largest in Louisville Water history. More than half of those dollars go to infrastructure projects- replacing older water mains, installing new lines, and improving our treatment facilities. Allotted in the capital budget is more than $14 million in grant funding that Louisville Water expects to receive which will go toward:
- Oak Street project where crews are replacing a 130-year-old water main. This project will improve the overall reliability of our water supply for the community and ensure high-quality Pure Tap flows for the next century.
- It will also benefit customers in lower-income neighborhoods to replace lead service lines on their private property for free.
Louisville Water expects to sell 34.3 billion gallons of water in 2025, on par with 2024 water sales. Part of that water goes to nine drinking water utilities in Bullitt, Spencer, Shelby, Hardin and Nelson counties.
Keeping the focus on our customers and their needs, we offer financial assistance through Drops of Kindness. Customers who can do so also have the option to donate to Drops of Kindness on their bill.
