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The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday.
City Director of Wastewater Treatment Corey Bond provided an update on his department. Bond said the city treated 2.9 billion gallons of water in 2025, with an average volume of about 13 million gallons per day, which is 62 percent of the wastewater treatment facility’s maximum capacity. The city’s facility expansion plan has been submitted to the state for approval. The estimated cost of the full expansion is about $120 million, but Bond said the work will be completed in phases to evaluate demand.
“The first phase of the expansion will be a new admin building and new equipment that we need in order to meet new regulations that are put forth by the state, and then we can also phase in later on the actual expansion of capacity,” Bond said.
City Administrator Ed Poppe provided an update on several city projects. Poppe said several projects related to the outdoor music venue are progressing. Commerce Drive will be closed until spring for construction operations, and the Kentucky Division of Water approved a water line upgrade project being conducted in conjunction with Hardin County Water District No. 2. Poppe said the project did hit some delays related to sinkholes, with costs coming out of project contingency funds.
“I’m happy to report that remediation work has been done, the projects moving along, so Congleton-Hacker and our design team have worked very well with our special inspectors, and like I said have done a really good job of staying on top of that from a timing standpoint,” Poppe said.
Poppe said work on Fire Station No. 4 is nearing completion, and after also seeing some soil remediation work the expansion of the Elizabethtown Police Department is progressing.
Elizabethtown Airport Board Chair Carl Swope provided an update. Swope said the city’s acquisition of the Hayden School Road property adjacent the airport will go a long way towards supporting the airport’s strategic plan. Work on a corporate jet hangar has been completed, while Swope said the board is requesting $600,000 from the city for the next phase of their T-hangar project as the board waits for grant application opportunities.
“We got done sooner than we thought we would, so we are not as close to the next round of funding as we thought we would be, and even then I was probably going to have to be here anyway, but I’m here today asking if it is possible to do some bridge funding, some gap funding,” Swope said.
Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said the city and council would discuss the requested funds.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet January 20.
The Radcliff City Council met for a called meeting and work session Monday. The council approved an agreement with the Lincoln Trail Area Development District for a six-month trial contract for LTADD’s Office of Public Relations service. Council Member Jerry Brown said he would like to see the city hire a full-time PR official, so the trial contract is a good test. “There’s a perception of Radcliff that I want to […]
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