For
Immediate Release
Dec. 6, 2001
Contact: Terry Sebastian or Rusty Cheuvront (502) 564-2611 http://gov.state.ky.us/communications.htm
Gov.
Patton announces $70 Million in Water Infrastructure Projects
“In my first year as
Governor, I created the Water Resource Development Commission to analyze and
plan the best way to prepare Kentucky for the new millennium and to provide
water to every Kentucky household,” Patton said. “Today’s announcement
takes us to another level because I believe it is a necessity of modern life and
a basic right of every American in the 21st century to have an
adequate and sanitary water system.”
Governor Patton signed
legislation, sponsored by Sen. Kelly during the 2000 session, that created
regional water management planning councils charged with establishing a
statewide database of proposed water projects from each area of the state. In
addition, the funding for today’s announced projects was included in the
current biennial budget.
The Kentucky Infrastructure Authority
approved some $70 million statewide for the current 177 water projects. This
funding, combined with federal and local matching funds, will result in a total
investment of $240 million in state water infrastructure.
“These projects are a result of one
of the best examples of bipartisan cooperation in Kentucky in a very long
time,” Patton said. “Working closely with Sen. Dan Kelly, we structured a
new and much more realistic process for planning and developing Kentucky’s
water infrastructure and a system to deliver water to households, schools and
industries across our Commonwealth.”
Additionally, Patton
said he would be working closely with the 2002 Legislature to invest some $40
million to $50 million of Coal Severance funds in water projects to assure that
the nearly 270,000 unserved households in Kentucky will have access to safe
drinking water by 2020.
“These funds leveraged with other funding sources, similar
to the 2020 Program involving tobacco funds, will allow us to generate another
$156 million in water infrastructure development in our coal regions of the
Commonwealth,” Patton said.
“For the first time
in history, we have conducted a comprehensive needs analysis for each Kentucky
county and have strategically matched these needs with the appropriate funding
source. Today’s announcement moves us closer to our 20-year goal of safe
drinking water in every Kentucky home and business,” he said.
The 177 projects
announced today include:
|
County |
# of
projects |
# of
households |
Project
total |
|
Adair |
2 |
2,876 |
$5,065,400 |
|
Ballard |
1 |
612 |
$634,000 |
|
Barren |
4 |
19,157 |
$1,006,000 |
|
Bath |
2 |
4,014 |
$2,310,355 |
|
Boone |
1 |
75 |
$257,600 |
|
Bourbon |
2 |
345 |
$2,950,200 |
|
Boyd |
1 |
7,500 |
$2,362,626 |
|
Boyle |
1 |
6,700 |
$1500 |
|
Bracken |
3 |
2,709 |
$3,060,000 |
|
Breckinridge |
1 |
10,975 |
$8,500,000 |
|
Bullitt |
6 |
176 |
$882,500 |
|
Butler |
1 |
4,800 |
$122,000 |
|
Caldwell |
2 |
3,975 |
$8,435,723 |
|
Calloway |
3 |
1,500 |
$1,654,600 |
|
Carroll |
2 |
538 |
$2,226,000 |
|
Carter |
3 |
21,192 |
$8,130,000 |
|
Casey |
1 |
336 |
$1,467,400 |
|
Christian |
2 |
3,179 |
$2,650,000 |
|
Clark |
2 |
2,162 |
$1,465,183 |
|
Clay |
1 |
1,600 |
$8,000,000 |
|
Clinton |
1 |
44 |
$496,600 |
|
Crittenden |
1 |
1,817 |
$400,000 |
|
Cumberland |
1 |
900 |
$4,161,000 |
|
Daviess |
3 |
4,360 |
$3,825,000 |
|
Edmonson |
2 |
4,000 |
$112,314 |
|
Fayette |
1 |
174,976 |
$545,000 |
|
Fleming |
2 |
8,187 |
$19,128,000 |
|
Floyd |
2 |
59 |
$394,102 |
|
Franklin |
3 |
46 |
$526,889 |
|
Fulton |
1 |
1,852 |
$900,523 |
|
Gallatin |
1 |
6 |
$16,400 |
|
Garrard |
2 |
1,840 |
$729,300 |
|
Grant |
2 |
8,328 |
$1,634,200 |
|
Graves |
1 |
1,998 |
$1,117,868 |
|
Grayson |
2 |
930 |
$3,364,000 |
|
Green |
1 |
35 |
$1,432,000 |
|
Greenup |
1 |
1,360 |
$529,500 |
|
Hancock |
1 |
2,248 |
$7,000,000 |
|
Hardin |
2 |
51,048 |
$2,650,000 |
|
Harlan |
3 |
2,739 |
$3,727,275 |
|
Harrison |
1 |
876 |
$550,000 |
|
Hart |
2 |
1,008 |
$749,365 |
|
Henderson |
2 |
36,372 |
$700,000 |
|
Henry |
1 |
12,144 |
$3,450,000 |
|
Hopkins |
1 |
15,031 |
$1,041,000 |
|
Jackson |
1 |
5,800 |
$4,000,000 |
|
Jefferson |
1 |
40 |
$299,200 |
|
Jessamine |
2 |
12,341 |
$4,026,000 |
|
Johnson |
1 |
480 |
$1,297,149 |
|
Kenton |
1 |
47 |
$459,360 |
|
Knox |
3 |
20 |
$95,000 |
|
Larue |
1 |
20,292 |
$2,500,000 |
|
Laurel |
3 |
6,044 |
$2,118,364 |
|
Lawrence |
2 |