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Flooding May Not affect Northwest Tennessee Port

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Project executives with the Cates Landing port on the Mississippi River in northwest Tennessee are optimistic that spring flooding will not affect construction.  Work on the multimillion-dollar Lake County riverport has been ongoing since 1999.  Mike Sanders, of Dyersburg’s Forcum-Lannom Contractors reported to the port authority the project "is starting to look like something."  He says forecasts show a normal risk for spring flooding, and that "everything is tracking along pretty good."  The slack water port will handle barge traffic, improving bulk cargo handling for northwest Tennessee. Officials say dock construction is expected to be completed in late summer.

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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