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原文传递 Living Lands & Waters Assists In West Kentucky Tornado Recovery

题名：	Living Lands & Waters Assists In West Kentucky Tornado Recovery
正文语种：	eng
作者：	SHELLEY BYRNE
摘要：	River cleanup and environmental advocacy organization Living Lands & Waters typically cleans 500,00 to 700,000 pounds of garbage from the nations rivers each year. "This is 1.2 million pounds we've done so far, and that's basically in eight weeks," founder and president Chad Pregracke said of the debris the organization has pulled out of and alongside Kentucky Lake since a tornado hit December 10. The long-track tornado, which traveled on the ground more than 165 miles-including a contiguous 128-mile path in Kentucky-crossed both Kentucky Lake, an impoundment of the Tennessee River, and Lake Barkley, an impoundment of the Cumberland River. It hit Kentucky Lake about 5 miles upstream of Kentucky Lock and Dam, River Mile 22.4. "This thing was so powerful it threw a decent portion of the houses into the lake, and also it picked up cars and threw them off the hills and into the lake," Pregracke said.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	135
期：	49
页码：	42-42