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By Patricia A. ScheyerNKyTribune reporterThe Campbell County courthouse in Newport was the site of a report and discussion on solutions to the repeated flooding in the city of Silver Grove by me ....
May 4, 2021 By Shelley Byrne Property owners along the Ohio River near Olmsted, Ill., and the Corps of Engineers both agree riverbank erosion is occurring, but they disagree as to its cause. Sandra Thornton, an Air Force veteran who has rallied her neighbors and begun a letter-writing campaign to the president, members of Congress and the media, among others, is adamant that the replacement of the former Locks and Dams 52 and 53 with the Olmsted Locks and Dam has sped up the erosion, along with the placement of four barge mooring cells and a relocated boat ramp moved due to the dam’s construction. She also believes the propulsion of passing barges has had an effect. ....