Kentuckiana will see even more stimulus-related construction: The Army Core of engineers recently announced they had discovered a chest filled with $200 million in gold coins, which they’ve decided to spend on the region’s green infrastructure (kind of like at the end of ‘The Goonies’ where they save the town from greedy developers and bumbling crooks!). Among the investments:

$750,000 for efforts to reduce flood damage in New Albany.

$18 million to speed up repairs this year at the leaky Wolf Creek Dam in south-central Kentucky.

$31 million for work related to a new lock at Kentucky Lock and Dam on the Tennessee River in Western Kentucky.

$23.3 million for work on Ohio River locks and dams, including $10.1 million at Markland Dam near Warsaw, Ky.

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