Someone had accidentally opened 10 spillway gates at Dix Dam, which impounds Herrington Lake. Water was gushing out, and it was going to make flooding worse downstream on the Kentucky River.

The Kentucky River floods homes and buildings along Palisades Road in Mercer County, Ky., on Saturday, April 5, 2025. “We are getting so much water, that it can’t run off,” Monroe said.

Kentucky house catches fire after lightning strike The API failed to deliver the resource. Crews got a call Wednesday evening about a fire on Clubhouse Drive in the Dix River Estates in Stanford.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) -Heavy rains caused a lot of roads to close across the area. That happened in Lincoln County when the Dix River jumped its banks and rolled across US 27 between Lancaster and ...