Leitchfield Utilities has received a nearly $700,000 grant from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
The grant was announced on Wednesday at a ceremony in Fulton and attended by Leitchfield Utilities Commission Chairman Robert Crawford, Leitchfield Utilities Superintendent Dwight Embry, Leitchfield Utilities consultant Adam Scott (who wrote the grant application), and Leitchfield Mayor Harold Miller.
The grant, in the amount of $684,039, is earmarked for replacing a key gas line in Leitchfield that serves multiple schools, the judicial center and hospital, and will help reduce methane emissions and protect the community from leaky natural gas pipes.
“This project is going to allow us to replace a two-inch steel gas line with a four-inch polyethylene (line),” Crawford said in his remarks while accepting the grant. “That line will go by Grayson County Middle School, it goes by an elementary school (Wilkey), it serves the Kentucky Community and Technical College campus that we have in Leitchfield. (And) the Grayson County Judicial Center and Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center are all on this line that we’re going to be able to replace with this grant.”
The Leitchfield Utilities grant is part of $13.6 million in funding from the Biden-Harris Administration Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
(Photo l-r: Mayor Harold Miller, LU Superintendent Dwight Embry, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s State Director Robin Taylor, LU consultant Adam Scott, Deputy Administrator of Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Tristan Brown)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
