 Would you rather pay $650 or $66 for a smart phone? Simple. With the Appalachian Advantage plan, pay less upfront, and then just a few dollars more every month. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. As part of a three-stop tour, Kentucky Congressman Hal Rogers visited Mountain Home Place to announce federal funds for flood mitigation in Johnson County. We were able to secure $118 million for flood mitigation right here in Johnson County. It's yours. And since... As part of the announcement, Congressman Rogers alluded to previous successes in flood mitigation, such as Pineville and Middlesboro, for economic development and safety. Rogers hopes the recent funds will do the same for Johnson County. Well, I've noticed the towns along the Cumberland River where we've built flood walls, tunnels and the like to prevent flooding. Those towns no longer flood and you're seeing businesses open up, where in the past would not risk that money knowing they would be flooded out next year. So we're seeing economic revival take place in many of the towns that we've built these facilities around. With three phases anticipated, we spoke with Colonel Eric Crispinoe about their flood mitigation plan. Right, so the first phase of the project is what we call the...we use the acronym FWEAP, which stands for Flood Warning Emergency Evacuation Plan. And that will consist of a series of sensors and gauges along the creek in the watershed. And then that'll tie into some type of warning system. We're still scoping out what that warning system will look like, but most likely some type of combination of sirens, mass notification, email notifications, text message notifications to give residents as much warning as possible of rising waters. Phase two consists of some flood mitigation measures specifically around the county courthouse and in the King's addition region. And that's where you will see some flood walls begin to be put into place. But it's really a smaller area that we're talking about. In other words, we spoke with Paintsville Mayor Bill Mike Runyon about how flood mitigation would impact Johnson County. We have a section in the city of Paintsville, what we call the lower end of town, that every time that it floods, that's the section that gets hit the hardest. And what this project is going to do is to cut down on that flooding extensively and probably overall. So that's how important this project is to the city of Paintsville. That's what it'll bring, it'll bring increased property values, it'll also bring the fact that people won't have to clean up after every time we get a flooding situation and it's going to increase property values a whole lot. So we're just tickled this project and we're so thankful to Congressman Rogers for what he's done. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Corjol.