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This week, officials with the City of Hazard have been working on repairing several waterline breaks that resulted in the loss of water to multiple areas of Hazard and Perry County. On Dec. 30, a certificate of emergency was declared by the city. Tony Eversole, as the acting city manager of Hazard, signed a certificate of emergency stating that the City of Hazard was under an emergency condition involving the supply of water to its customers both inside and outside the city due to severe weather conditions experienced in the past weeks which caused multiple serious waterline breaks and the serious loss of water storage capacity in all parts of the system. This shortage, said the certificate, threatens disruption of service to residential, commercial and industrial customers in various parts of the system. Due to this, city officials are asking any residential, commercial and industrial customers to conserve, reduce, ration or restrict water usage for the duration of the emerge ....
A State of Emergency has been declared for the city of Hazard. Acting City Manager Tony Eversole declared a State of Emergency due to the water shortage inside and outside of the city. There have been multiple waterline breaks which lead to loss of water storage capacity due to the snow we saw this past week. As of Wednesday night, Perry County had 400 customers out of the 10,000 on the system still without water. These customers are mainly in the Ary, Bulan, Dwarf, Pine Valley, and Rowdy communities. The tank that supplies those areas had drained over the past several days, starting before Christmas, and was exacerbated by the cold weather. ....