 Recently, the Pikeville City Commission received a FEMA grant for the upcoming flood risk reduction cleanup project. Due to years of sediment buildup in the city pond and surrounding river systems, large amounts of water can't be drained properly during a flood threat. Pikeville City engineer Brad Sloan tells us more. What's happened is the pond was finished as part of the cut-through project. It's part of a levy system, and it provides capacity for flood surges. And over those last 40 years, sediment has built up in the upper reaches of the pond and in the streams that lead to it. So this project is a FEMA hazard mitigation grant. It's run through Kentucky's Division of Emergency Management. And what it does is the state of Kentucky is actually the grantee, and we're the sub-grantee. And what it provides is about almost $300,000 in fees and funds to the city to do planning for mitigation for the pond. Do you worry about having enough money to last throughout retirement? Give Reed Potter at Raymond James a call. Reed has 26 years experience helping folks enjoy their best life in their retirement years. Sloan says more money and manpower will be needed in future phases of the project. For now, the city is planning on how to tackle the situation prior to reconstruction. We will need more money in order to complete this project. I think the last estimate we got that was ultimately, I think this will cost about $3 million to do the actual construction work. The people that we've been dealing with on this grant to the state and FEMA, they're optimistic that if we get this planning grant done successfully, that there'll be more funds available to do the actual construction. Reporting from Outant Top News, I'm Nick Collum.