By Robin Hartman and Paulette Akers In October of 2019, about 2000 athletes were poised for the first leg of that year’s Ironman competition, a 1.2-mile downriver swim in the Ohio River. But it never happened. Unsafe levels of nutrient pollution had caused harmful algal blooms (HABs) in […]
By Robin Hartman Source: Rob Blair (EEC) – Map showing pump station distribution, color-coded based on auxiliary power availability. Immediately following the devastating floods in Eastern Kentucky in June 2022, power outages or storm damage left 22 drinking water systems and 18 wastewater systems without service. It took […]
By Clay Wallace Beneath a grassy hill, just 10 miles northwest of Morehead, lies more than 4.5 million cubic feet of radioactive waste – enough to fill 64 Olympic swimming pools. The original 280-acre site is nearly indistinguishable from any of the other fields atop the flat ridges […]