A number of boats were located yesterday and secured around the Omega area of Pulaski County after several covered slips came loose from the London Dock, located in Laurel County began floating along the waters of Lake Cumberland by themselves.
The slips were pulled from their home after heavy rains came on Thursday.
Jill Jarvis, a houseboat owner who lives just over the Clay County line, said she received a call around 11:30 a.m. from those who work at the dock letting her know they had located her houseboat. Jarvis said her houseboat was with one of the covered slips they located in the Omega area.
Jarvis said she hadn’t seen her boat yet, as those who work at the dock had only been able to secure the boat so far. She said they did however tell her that the houseboat was damaged in the back as it was the biggest boat in the slip and it was sticking out of the structure.
“I was just pleased they were able to find my boat,” said Jasper.
Jarvis said that other boats were located in the Jasper Bend community, which is about 10 miles from where the London Dock is located. The boats which were found in the Omega area, however, continued to travel past the Jasper Bend area, going on approximately a couple of more miles before reaching Omega.
She said that at this point, those working on securing and finding the boats have indicated to all they are still looking for some.
She said while the boat slips came loose, dock workers were able to secure the area that houses the store.
“I wouldn’t want (my boat) to be anywhere else except the London Dock,” said Jarvis, “even after this has happened.”
Bob Mitchell owns the London Dock Marina.
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Big Bang Theory
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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