Contracts will be awarded this week by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to extend eight boat ramps into the water of Lake Cumberland.
The Corps opened bids yesterday at the resource manager’s office on Somerset Boat Dock Road. “We got (acceptable proposals) for eight of the 10 sites we were hoping to get,” said Craig Shoe, resource manager for Lake Cumberland.
Ramps in Pulaski County to be included in the contract letting are Lee’s Ford Marina and Resort and Waitsboro Recreation Area. The Corps-operated ramp at Fishing Creek Recreation Area across from Pulaski County Park is far from the water and “ ... nothing can be done” to make it usable, Shoe said.
Other ramps for which contracts will be let this week are Alligator No. 2, Conley Bottom Marina, Fall Creek Recreation Area, Halcomb’s Landing, Jamestown Marina and Grider Hill Marina.
Proposals to extend ramps at Beaver Creek and Cumberland Point exceeded the amount for which the local Corps of Engineers’ office can award contracts, Shoe said.
A total of six contracting firms submitted bids and contracts will be awarded to four companies, Shoe said. The work apparently will be done in haste. The Corps advised contractors in advance that “ ... if you can’t do the work quickly, don’t bid.” Purchase orders have not been issued on the proposed contracts and Shoe said the local office is not authorized at this point to reveal the costs of the ramp-extension projects.
Creating access to Lake Cumberland is being expedited on all fronts before the coming recreational season. The lake has been lowered 43 feet below the tree line because Wolf Creek Dam has been classified as a “high risk” of failure. The lower lake level is scheduled to remain for the remainder of this year and most of the boat ramps are out of the water.
The boat ramp at General Burnside Island State Park, a responsibility of the state, has been extended and is scheduled to be usable by this afternoon.
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Contracts to extend the boat ramps at Lee’s Ford Marina (above) and Waitsboro Recreation Area will be awarded this week.
Contracts for ramp extensions to be awarded this week
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Pulaski County is not at war. The booming you may hear at dusk is mock cannon fire to scare away birds.
Stuart Spillman, environmental director for the Lake Cumberland Health Department, said at least three cannons are on loan from the department to residents who want to scare away swarms of starlings and blackbirds settling in to roost.
He said a cannon is being used by a resident on Laura Lane off Ky. 39; another is in the Oak Hill Road area and a third is on Ashurst Street in the eastern part of Somerset.
Spillman said a timer on each cannon allows it to “fire” at whatever frequency is desired. The cannons must be used as the birds circle before going to roost. “After they settle in, nothing will chase them out,” Spillman said.
The Health Department doesn’t operate the cannons unless there is a specific complaint in an area where there are lots of birds, Spillman noted. He said so far this year the birds are not as bad as in the past. -
Boil water advisory is lifted countywide
The water controversy that Pulaski County has been boiling over — so to speak — for the last week is finally over.
At 10 minutes after noon Wednesday, the “boil water” advisory for the Western Pulaski Water District was lifted — almost a full week after the problems began around 1 p.m. last Thursday.
Prior to that, the Somerset Water Service — along with the other water providers in its system, including Science Hill Water, Southeastern Water, and Eubank Water — lifted their advisories, with Somerset on Saturday afternoon and the last, Southeastern, by Monday morning. Western Pulaski was the last in the system to complete sample testing for potential contaminants, due to not being able to access its Pikeville-based testing lab until Monday.
Somerset Mayor Eddie Girdler thanked the public for its patience and understanding during the duration of the boil water advisory — put in place to keep citizens from drinking water that could have been contaminated after an accident last Thursday at the water plant site — and also thanked all the city employees for their hard work during this time.
“The boil water advisory went about as well as would be expected,” said Girdler.
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