Louisville Water started a project to improve the reliability of our infrastructure. Louisville Water’s filtration process produces residual solids that must be removed from the treatment plant. The “Residual Line” is the pipeline that takes the residuals from the Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant to lagoons at our B. E. Payne Water Treatment Plant in Prospect. The system is critical to daily water production at Crescent Hill. The current line, constructed in 1971 is reaching the end of its useful life so we are constructing two new lines for increased redundancy.
One of the segments of the project runs along River Road from Zorn Avenue to Transylvania Ave and along Transylvania Ave to our property at the B.E. Payne Water Treatment Plant. This project will include the installation of two dual 24-inch residual lines. In order to maintain the safety of the public and our crews it will be necessary to close River Road during construction of these mains. The construction along River Road will occur in four phases.
Starting March 3 the first phase of River Road will be closed to thru traffic from Zorn to Blankenbaker Lane. Access to homes and businesses will remain open. When construction is completed in each phase the road will be paved and reopened as we move east. The project is expected to last 2 years.
