Pentagon Makes Good on Commitment to McConnell to Fund Chemical Weapons Disposal
The Pentagon stepped up and delivered on their commitments made last December to Senator Mitch McConnell to fully fund the Chemical Weapons disposal projects at Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky and Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado. These two efforts, known as the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA), have been the target of funding cuts for many years, slowing the progress towards eliminating the risks associated with the weapons and undermining the United States’ commitment under an international treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention. It is reported that the 2010 budget request for ACWA increased...

Bluegrass Water Treatment Plants Recognized for Outstanding Operation
The Kentucky Division of Water (KDOW) has recognized a small number of water treatment plants across the Commonwealth for their successful efforts to reduce the turbidity (cloudiness) of their finished drinking water. Turbidity can be caused by sand and dirt as well as bacteria and viruses. The KDOW effort is entitled the Area-Wide Optimization Program (AWOP)...

Stanford Receives Rural Development Financial Assistance to Undertake Wastewater Treatment Improvements
For the last few years, the City of Stanford has stood at the top of the ADD’s to-do list in terms of needed improvements to publicly-owned wastewater treatment plants in the 17-county region. Hydraulic flows have long exceeded the treatment plant’s rated capacity and the situation threatened to be an impediment to orderly planned growth and development in the county seat of Lincoln County. Efforts by the city and by its Water Commission bore fruit on Earth Day, 2009 as Vernon Brown, Acting State Director of USDA’s Rural Development, made a long-awaited announcement in Stanford.