 Tuesday, September 6th, Governor Andy Beshear announced the start of a project to replace almost 20,000 feet of water lines and presented 2.6 million in funding to improve water infrastructure in Floyd County. We're actually here with a couple of investments that were planned even before this. Investments in Floyd County to make sure we're not just lifting our brothers and sisters been knocked down, but we're helping a community to move forward. Today, I get to announce $770,669 for a project to construct a 430,000 gallon per day water treatment plan. My name is Aaron Crump, Chief Medical Officer at Pikeville Medical Center. The Heart and Vascular Institute, it's really an incredible program. Made incredible because of the providers, because of the technology, and because of the staff. We've truly become the leading provider of Heart and Vascular Services in Eastern Kentucky, and in fact what we do compares to anywhere in the nation. Pikeville Medical Center, when it comes to your heart, place your care in our hands. The project will replace the existing Wheelwright water treatment plant with a new and larger capacity plant. This will ensure reliable water service for 356 households and 15 businesses in Wheelwright. This year also presented an additional $1.5 million for the Wayland-Talaki Waterline Replacement Project and $1.9 million for the Kentucky 680 Mini to Kentucky 80 Waterline Extension Project. Everybody deserves access to clean drinking water. It is a basic human right, and we've seen what happens if you don't have the water and wastewater systems that can handle the types of events we've seen. So we knew investing in water in Eastern Kentucky was important, but we all see how much more work there is to do. But you know what? This is going to be a start. These projects will provide residents of Floyd County with a sustainable and reliable water source and serve 10 households who previously had no access to city water. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.