The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has launched a flood risk management survey for Eastern Kentucky and beyond.
At this week’s meeting of the Perry County Fiscal Court, a community planner with the Corps presented an outline of the study.
She said the Corps is looking at what they call “water resource challenges” in Kentucky, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois which include flood risk management and stream bank stabilization.
She said Eastern Kentucky is disproportionately impacted by flooding with the region
having federally declared flooding disasters around 30 times since 1967.
She says the study will take about four years and there will be public meetings along the way.