Corps to hold meetings on restricting water access

WKMS | By AP

Published December 26, 2012 at 7:04 AM CST

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning a series of public meeting in January to solicit opinions on restricting access in hazardous waters immediately upstream and downstream of all Corps-owned locks and dams in Kentucky and Tennessee. Dates for the meetings have not been set. The Somerset Commonwealth-Journal reports the Corps is concerned about areas above and below dams in the Nashville District. The waters pose a high level of risk for the public because hydroelectric and lock operations often begin with little or no notice. The meetings are planned for Paducah, Somerset, Nashville, Tennessee, and Cookeville, Tennessee.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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