(Kansas City, Mo.) – Springtime means the beginning of lawn care season. Spring leaf and brush curbside collection begins Monday, April 8th. Customers are asked to collect their lawn debris in paper bags and set them by the curb by 7:00 a.m. on their regularly-scheduled trash day. Here is the Spring 2019 schedule: Residents who Read more…
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Customers Advised of Wastewater Overflow Near 3214 E. 53rd Street
Posted on Apr 3, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) – KC Water responded to a wastewater overflow near 3214 E 53rd Street on Tuesday, April 2nd at 3:00 p.m. It ended a short time later at 4:15 p.m. and resulted in an overflow of approximately 375 gallons of wastewater. Some of the spilled wastewater entered Town Fork Creek which leads to Read more…
KC Water is Here to Help Customers with Updated Payment Portal and Website
Posted on Apr 3, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) – Customers asked and we listened. We’ve upgraded our website and online payment system so customers can more easily manage their account. KC Water customers can now go to www.kcwater.us and register their account online, sign up for high usage alerts and enroll in auto pay. “In surveys, customers told us they Read more…
KC Water Cancels Treatment Technic Alert
Posted on Mar 29, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) Turbidity levels are now within the standards set by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and KC Water has lifted the treatment technic alert that was driven by higher turbidity levels. Improving river conditions have allowed our treatment process to resume near normal conditions and the alert that was issued to the Read more…
KC Water Cancels Water Conservation Request
Posted on Mar 28, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) KC Water cancelled its request for customers to cut back on their water use. As the Missouri River recedes, our treatment process is getting back to normal. Customers had been asked to conserve water in an effort to keep more water in the treatment process longer. We appreciate everyone’s help. Our treatment Read more…
KC Water Asks Customers to Conserve Water
Posted on Mar 25, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) – KC Water is asking customers to conserve water to help with ongoing treatment challenges created by current characteristics of the Missouri River. Reducing the amount of water will lessen the impact on the treatment plant and help KC Water meet treatment needs. Although KC Water has no confirmed biologic or virus Read more…
KC Water Continues to Experience Water Treatment Challenges Due to Missouri River Flooding
Posted on Mar 25, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) Melting snow, rain runoff, and high floodwaters have combined to create rare treatment challenges for KC Water. Because of changes in the Missouri River, the source of Kansas City’s drinking water, KC Water failed to meet enhanced treatment technique standards for turbidity during March for the treatment of Cryptosporidium. In accordance with Read more…
Kansas City Levees Not Threatened by Floodwaters
Posted on Mar 20, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) – A combination of melting snow and rain runoff is causing significant flooding for some communities along the Missouri River, but thanks to an extensive levee system, Kansas City is not at risk. The Downtown Airport and the Northeast Industrial (East Bottoms) Levee Units and the Missouri side of the Central Industrial Read more…
Center Middle School Students Share Their Ideas for the Future of 103rd and Wornall with KC Water
Posted on Mar 5, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) – Relentless rain during the summer of 2017 sent Indian Creek surging over its banks at 103rd and Wornall in south Kansas City. The water flooded Coach’s Bar & Grill and nearly everything around it. Center Middle School is a few blocks to the east. Many of the students and teachers have Read more…
Kansas City Area Flood Protection Gets Financial Boost from Federal Government
Posted on Feb 14, 2019(Kansas City, Mo.) – Millions of dollars in savings and one step closer to more comprehensive flood control for Kansas City. That’s the good news from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps recently announced the remaining work on the Kansas Citys Levees will be fully federally funded. This means Kansas City, MO and Read more…