Hazard Chamber Meeting Focuses on Water Interruptions, Winter Storm Recovery

Hazard business owners and county officials spent the opening hour of the Hazard–Perry County Chamber of Commerce membership meeting on Feb. 24, 2026, focused on ongoing water-service interruptions that have followed this winter’s storms. The regularly scheduled meeting in Hazard brought together local officials and business leaders to review recovery work after the storms and to place water reliability at the top of the chamber agenda.

Chamber leaders described the meeting as a venue for coordination among municipal and county representatives and the business community. Local officials and business leaders discussed lingering water-service interruptions and recovery work after winter storms, noting that both topics continued to affect daily operations across Perry County. Attendees at the membership meeting emphasized the need for follow-up briefings and targeted attention to infrastructure that has been stressed by recent weather.

The focus on water-service interruptions reflected repeated reports from businesses outside central Hazard and neighborhoods across Perry County where customers and commercial properties experienced interruptions after heavy freezing and thaw cycles. Chamber members at the meeting examined recovery work after winter storms in Hazard and surrounding communities, raising concerns about turnarounds for restored service and the potential for repeated outages as temperatures fluctuate in late winter.

Discussion at the meeting also covered other items on the chamber agenda that affect the local economy, with business leaders linking water-service reliability to worker attendance, inventory needs and customer access in downtown Hazard. The membership meeting in Hazard served as the chamber’s regular forum to surface operational challenges and to press for clearer timelines from service providers and public agencies involved in recovery work after the storms.

The chamber scheduled follow-up coordination among the membership and urged local officials present to prioritize updates on repair status and recovery milestones. With the Feb. 24 meeting concluding without a final solution, Hazard–Perry County Chamber members signaled they will continue tracking water-service interruptions and winter-storm recovery work as the county moves into spring, seeking concrete timelines to minimize further disruption to businesses and public services.