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Lost IN Lou Thursday, OCTOBER 23, 2014
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Part Five
We love Louisville. A lot. So once more we chose to go down the rabbit hole and explore the city’s known and lesser known sights, sounds and even tastes. So sit back and enjoy the fifth installment of Lost in Lou.
Louisville Pure Tap Opened in 1879, the Crescent Hill Reservoir has been a fixture in Louisville for over 130 years. Why is this place so cool, and unique to most parts of the country? Well, there are not too many pumping stations and reservoirs from this era left, nationwide, and even fewer that still function and provide a necessary service to their cities. The Crescent Hill Reservoir, designed by Charles Hermany who helped design the Louisville Water Works, as well as water systems in Frankfort and Bowling Green. He based the design on a Gothic design from a building on the river Rhine in Germany. Inside are still the original valves that were opened, closed and supplied Louisville with clean water – a respite for a city that had been plagued with cholera in pryor decades.
Water is pretty dull, right? No taste, no color. Think again, because Louisville Water who produce our favorite Louisville Pure Tap have quite an interesting story. As anyone in Louisville will testify, our water is probably the best in the country, or at the very least – the tastiest, and now there is proof. Last year 12,000 water utility professionals tasted samplings from 20 different cities at the American Water Works Conference. And our very own River City came out on top. Best of all, the water in Louisville is a great value as well as great tasting. For every $3 bottle of water you buy at concerts or festivals, you could fill that same bottle 7,000 times with Pure Tap for the same cost. And who can we credit with offering us this fine thirst-quenching nectar? Well, a good place to start is the Crescent Hill Reservoir.
Today Louisville Water supplies 850,000 people with fresh, clean and safe water at a rate of 124 million gallons of Pure Tap every single day.
Crescent Hill Reservoir See Page A-2
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