Little Hurricane Boat Ramp still not open
By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. | |
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
After all,
"Hopefully, we'll be able to open it by
But the federal government moves slowly.
"All we have so far is a draft deed," Mattingly said this week.
County Attorney
"We hope to have it finalized by mid September," Mattingly said.
He's almost certain the boat ramp will be open by the time the fifth annual Monsters on the
Last year's tournament drew 123 boats from 20 states, and Wheatley expects more this year.
"I would expect Little Hurricane could handle another 50 to 75," he said in June. "But we don't need it just for tournaments. We need it for weekends, too. Some weekends,
"It will just be a primitive boat ramp," Mattingly said. "It won't be anything like
In late
But when it reopened, the undercut had not been fixed.
Mattingly said the undercut is only a problem when the river is low.
"We're going to ask them to come back down to tell us what they can do," Mattingly said. "I think they can pay up to 75 percent of the cost."
The boat ramp will become part of the county's parks system, he said earlier.
Since the area floods every time the
But Mattingly said the county may look into adding a couple of picnic tables next year.
The federal government had offered to donate the property to the county.
But negotiations had dragged on for nine years.
And Mattingly said, "There was a long line of strings attached. We decided we would rather buy it outright."
It began trying to get possession of the property in 2005, when the Corps first offered to give the property to the county.
But in 2010, after years of hearing promises that the Corps would turn the property over to the county,
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Four years later, the county is waiting to finally take possession of the property.
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