Todd County Fiscal Court has received the second $15 million dollar payment for a pipeline project that will impact five western Kentucky counties.
Judge-Executive Todd Mansfield told magistrates Friday morning the final payment from the state funding announced by Governor Andy Beshear last September had arrived.
Mansfield recently told Your WEKT News Edge the project is about eighty-percent complete when it comes to right-of-way purchases.
The total cost of the 53-mile pipeline project is expected to be around $115 million. The pipeline will begin near the Lamasco area of Lyon County and connect to an ANR Pipeline. It will follow along Interstate 24 to the state line, never entering Tennessee, and follow along U.S. Highway 79 north of Guthrie, just shy of Novelis.
The pipeline is set to benefit southern portions of Lyon and Caldwell counties, as well as the Cadiz Industrial Park, the Hopkinsville Industrial Park, and Commerce Park II/TVA Megasite in Christian County. Additional areas to benefit from the pipeline include Fort Campbell, Guthrie, Oak Grove, and Trenton.
