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Kentucky Utilities Sending Crews to Help with Isaac Damage

Alan Lytle (KPR) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:50:21 +0000

Kentucky Utilities and Louisville Gas and Electric have answered the call to help with restoration efforts following Hurricane Isaac. KU spokesman Cliff Feltham,

“What we have decided to do is send roughly two hundred of our…a combination of employees and our contractor crews south to be deployed wherever they are needed, and they left early this morning.”

Feltham says the crews will report to a staging area in either South Tennessee or North Mississippi, and will fan out from there. He believes their first assignment will be in the Baton Rouge area.

Afternoon Round-Up 6/15/12

Rose Krzton-Presson — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:48:18 +0000

Today on NPR: It turns out he's not a 17-year-old boy who was living in the woods with his father until dad died — the story he told German police. He's a 20-year-old Dutch man with personal problems.

Regional Headlines:

Joppa Illinois' coal-fired power plant will shed nearly four dozen jobs in the next two months.

Plans to clean up bridge debris begin

Rose Krzton-Presson — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:14:21 +0000

Marshall and Trigg Counties’ Judge Executives are talking with representatives from Foss Maritime about handling the wreckage left from Eggner’s Ferry Bridge collapse.

Cleanup Plan Approved for Groundwater Contamination at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

Shelly Baskin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:09:36 +0000

The Department of Energy and EPA have approved a cleanup plan for contaminated groundwater at Paducah’s Gaseous Diffusion Plant. LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky will start field work in the summer of 2013 to cleanup a hazardous chemical called TCE. The chemical in the soil likely came from storm drains and spills at the plant’s loading docks. According to the DOE, the contamination is currently confined to the plant’s property and poses no threat to residents.