Kentuckiana congress members push plan to fund Ohio River restoration

Kentuckiana congress members push plan to fund Ohio River restoration

KyCIR's Morgan Watkins paddled a canoe along the new Ohio River Way water trail.(Morgan Watkins / LPM)U.S. Reps. Morgan McGarvey, a Louisville Democrat, and Erin Houchin, a Salem Republican, want to finance a federal program to do widespread ecological restoration of the Ohio River and the network of waterways that comprise its basin.The pair’s proposed legislation comes as local and national groups push an ambitious plan to address what they sa…