Water Distribution

Mission Statement
The City of Franklin Water Department is dedicated to maintaining the community’s water distribution system with the most responsive and efficient discipline; ensuring quality health and safety for all citizens at all times and under all conditions.

The City of Franklin has 5 employees in the Water Distribution Department with 4 of those being certified with the State of Kentucky Division of Water. The Water Distribution Department consists of three Line Maintenance personnel, one Meter Reader/Meter Maintenance.  The  Water Distribution Department has a combined total of 75 years of experience.  We at Franklin Public Works Water Distribution Division take pride in the work we do and take very seriously our responsibility to provide safe, clean drinking water to all our customers.

City of Franklin Water Availability Form

Customer Service Line Inventory Survey

The water department is working with new regulations passed by the Federal Government regarding the water quality in the distribution system. This new rule is called the IDSE rule or the Interim Distribution System Evaluation. This rule is designed to help water utilities by supplying guidelines to monitor the water quality in the distribution system by more stringent & frequent testing criteria at several more sampling points in the system. We test the water at the treatment plant and at many points throughout the piping system to insure safe quality water for our customers to drink.

The department is also in the process of developing a leak detection program. This program is designed to find leaks in the distribution system that is not surfacing. This will enable us to repair the leaks or replace the pipes and save money by reducing water loss.

Quality You Can Trust
We believe you should be able to take clean drinking water for granted. . .  so we don't.  Each year, we deliver an amazing amount of safe drinking water - over 640 million gallons - to 5,700 customers.  To do this, we maintain over 120 miles of water pipes, 600 hydrants, 2 one million gallon storage tanks and hundreds of valves throughout our service area.


Water Loss Program
The department is also in the process of developing a leak detection program.  This program is designed to find leaks in the distribution system that is not surfacing.  This will enable us to repair the leaks or replace the pipes and save money by reducing water loss.

Bill Belcher Bill Belcher
Class III Operator
Date of employment -
September, 1994
Steve Akin Steve Akin
Scheduler
Date of employment -
June, 2010
steve.akin@franklinky.org
Kenny Massey Kenny Massey
Water Distribution Superintendent
Date of employment -
February, 2017
kenny.massey@franklinky.org