Work is nearly completed on a project to replace a Kentucky River dam that holds the pool from which Nicholasville and Lancaster draw water.
Dam No. 8 needed to be replaced because water leaks through its foundation.
The goal is to complete work before Christmas, according to Daniel Gilbert, a principal and geotechnical engineer with Stantec, the consulting engineering firm on the project. The work includes building concrete-filled cylinders, each 54 feet in diameter, in front of the old dam.
Jerry Graves, executive director of the Kentucky River Authority, says the $12.6 million project is coming in on budget.
Graves says the Lock and Dam No. 8 project was to have been finished this summer, but high water in late spring and mid-summer delayed completion.
Source: AP
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