Beshear tours Mayfield flood damage, also visits Murray State

Governor Beshear visited Mayfield on Friday and saw damage from Wednesday's flash flooding that ravaged western Kentucky.

Beshear said the area is still under a state of emergency that he declared on Wednesday, but he said they have not yet received any requests for state assistance.

He said five Kentucky Emergency Management Agency officials are on the ground assessing the damage across western Kentucky.

As of his visit on Friday, he said there had been a total of 47 damage assessments, including 41 homes and six businesses.

Thirty were in Graves County, ten were in Ballard County and four in Carlisle County. Those assessments will continue.


While he was here, Beshear also visited Murray State University and presented more than $1.5 million to benefit Calloway and Trigg counties.

$750,000 will go to Calloway County to help demolish the current Murray Art Guild building at 500 N. Fourth Street in Murray.

The old building will be replaced with a state-of-the-art facility complete with community studios, individual artist spaces, a new retail space and a gallery for exhibitions.

$427,066 from the Cleaner Water Program was granted to the city of Cadiz to replace 2,600 feet of sewer line.

$427,065 in Cleaner Water Program funds go to the Barkley Lake Water District to construct a new sludge storage lagoon at its water treatment plant.

$565,686 was presented to 11 local nonprofits in Calloway and Trigg counties from the Team Kentucky Nonprofit Assistance Fund and the federal American Rescue Plan Act passed during the pandemic.