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(Kansas City, Mo.) – KC Water recently received a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for its work on the 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).  This is the second consecutive award for KC Water from the Government Finance Officers Association. This certificate is the highest form of recognition in the area of Read more…

(Kansas City, Mo.) – KC Water responded to a wastewater overflow near 3017 NW 58th Terrace on Sunday, April 14th at 2:00 p.m. A manhole near this location was overflowing at a rate of 1 gallon per minute. It ended at 12:43 a.m. Monday, April 15, 2019 and resulted in an overflow of approximately 643 Read more…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

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, 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…