Update: Monday, April 7, 2025 @ 5:25pm
The City of Harrodsburg Water Treatment Plant has resumed normal operations! We are not yet at full capacity in our tanks but hope to be by around midnight this evening. North Mercer and Lake Village have been advised that they can come back online. Normal water use may resume at this time.
This would not have been possible without the help of all of our citizens, industry partners, educators and businesses who responded with haste to help our community. We would also like to express our appreciation to North Mercer and Lake Village for their help in this matter and to our own City Water Treatment Plant Operators and Waste Water Treatment Plant Operators who have gone above and beyond to keep us operational during this historical event.
Please continue to keep our families, who have lost their homes, in your prayers.
Update: Monday, April 7, 2025 @ 12:56pm
At this time, the City of Harrodsburg is still able to intermittently pump water up to the treatment plant, and is sending water to town to top off water storage tanks as the team is able. Our top priority is restoring North Mercer Water District’s depleted storage tank levels.
The river intake’s submersible pump can run manually only at this time, as the transducer is submerged and will not allow the pump to communicate with the City’s telemetry. It is likely that raw water pumping will have to cease to protect the safety of our operators if Herrington Lake’s Dix Dam increases its spill rate or if Kentucky River Lock 7 must be opened.
Fortunately, the situation has not progressed as quickly as we anticipated and we have not had to shut anything down. We are holding our own but are by no means in the clear. Please continue to conserve water for the time being.
We will continue to provide updates here as we can.
Update: Monday, April 7, 2025 @ 9:44am
Last night flood levels reached within 1 1/2 feet of the City of Harrodsburg’s raw water station on the Kentucky River. Because of this, the plant was able to continue pumping until midnight and the City was able to continue filling its tanks. Pumping was discontinued at about midnight last night.
City of Harrodsburg, Burgin, County officials, representatives of North Mercer Water, Lake Village Water, representatives of local factories, the hospital, schools, and others have been engaged in ongoing meetings to try and minimize water use and troubleshoot. Everyone’s cooperation is greatly appreciated.
By this afternoon, we should know more about river levels and when/if we will be able to restart the pumps. At this point we are using stored water and the supply is limited.
We appreciate the community’s conservation efforts and request that you continue to limit water use as much as possible. We will provide further updates as soon as we are able to do so.
Update: Sunday, April 6, 2025 @ 6:04pm
The City of Harrodsburg, who supplies water to Harrodsburg, the City of Burgin, Lake Village Water and North Mercer Water District, anticipates that the water treatment plant will have to be shut down in the next few hours. Once this occurs, we will be operating on the City and County’s stored water supplies. Stored water supplies should provide water to residents for the next approximately twenty four hours.
The City is requesting that everyone CONSERVE water to the greatest extent possible. There should be no laundry, dishwashing, minimal showers, and as few toilet flushings as possible.
Once the stored water is depleted, Mercer County will be out of water and will remain so for up to one week based upon how long the Kentucky River remains at crested levels. Once water comes back online the City and County will be under a boil water advisory.
Mercer Emergency Management has ordered a semi of bottled water and updates regarding this will be provided once we have information on the delivery.
Updates on the situation will be provided on the City website and Facebook pages, the County Website and Facebook pages, the City of Burgin Facebook page, Mercer Emergency Management Facebook, and the Mercer County Chamber of Commerce Facebook page.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation during this difficult time.
Sunday, April 6, 2025 @ 12:37pm
Per City of Harrodsburg:
*Urgent Water Conservation Notice*