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The plan keeps pollution control standards in place, but gives states more flexibility to implement their own water quality programs while ensuring standards are equally protective.

Across the Ohio Valley, more than $700 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been invested at parks and wilderness areas.

The Metropolitan Sewer District has completed about 10 percent of a 4-mile-long tunnel meant to store excess sewage and stormwater.

The commission tasked with protecting water quality along the Ohio River has unveiled a plan to keep pollution control standards in place, while giving more flexibility to states.

The National Weather Service predicts the river will crest Monday at about 20 feet, which is just about one foot below the action level when the river starts to flow outside its banks.

A spokesman with the Army Corps of Engineers says the recovery operation could take weeks.

Fifteen coal barges broke free from a tug boat headed north up the Ohio River earlier this week. Six barges were recovered while another nine floated downriver.

Louisville’s flood protection system is one of the largest in the country, in terms of the number of people it protects. But parts of it are very, very old.

As the planet warms, severe storms are becoming more common across the region and the city's 29-mile system of walls, levees and pump stations is deteriorating.

A multi-state commission charged with protecting the Ohio River decided Thursday to postpone a decision to dramatically alter pollution controls.