News and Music Discovery
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Smithland Levee Earns Its Cost

By Angela Hatton

Smithland, KY – A levee built six years ago near Smithland is getting its first test in the current flood. The earthen levee is holding at Smithland. Livingston County Judge-Executive Chris Lasher says without the levee, the water would be about six inches deep over a section of U.S. 60 and would threaten local businesses. The levee was built in 2005 to protect the lower part of Smithland and eliminate the need to sandbag each time the Cumberland and Ohio rivers rose.