It was 20 years ago this month, when officials with the Logan/Todd Regional Water Commission proverbially twisted the knobs — pumping water to a pair of counties and surrounding municipalities needing a clean and reliable public system.
Tuesday afternoon in Guthrie, many of those same officials — alongside Governor Andy Beshear — celebrated two decades of sweat equity, growth and development of a property that pulses more than 8 million gallons of water from Clarksville and the Cumberland River, back out to 12 Kentucky entities and the city of Springfield, Tennessee.
Beshear brought with him checks for 10 cities and utilities totaling $2.4 million, all from the Better Kentucky Plan “Cleaner Water Program.”
It’s funded and brought on by the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, the Kentucky General Assembly, the American Rescue Plan Act and the collaboration of judge-executives and infrastructure leadership — who had to devise where these dollars would go.
Locally:
— It’s more than $247,000 to the City of Elkton for sewer plant improvements;
— It’s more than $247,000 to the Todd County Water District, for enhancing the district’s ability to read and monitor all water meters by installing cellular endpoints to their meters;
— It’s more than $185,000 to the Todd County Water District for master meter additions.
— It’s more than $247,000 to the Logan/Todd Regional Water Commission to construct a new sludge lagoon at the water treatment plant;
— And it’s more than $185,000 to the Logan/Todd Regional Water Commission to support a pipe replacement in North Russellville.
Beshear called the Todd/Logan relationship the “reality of what’s possible” when government tosses selfishness to the side.
Furthermore and after the celebration, Beshear told the News Edge that more infrastructure plans for the Commonwealth are underway.
Mike McGhee, of McGhee Engineering, noted he was just one of a few present Tuesday afternoon, who also presided over the very first meeting of Logan and Todd County officials.
It was July of 1995 in Russellville. And it brought the inception of this relationship.
Members of the proud LTRWC include Adairville, Auburn, Lewisburg, Russellville, the East Logan Water District, the North Logan Water District, the South Logan Water Association, Elkton, Guthrie, Trenton and the Todd County Water District.
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