Business View Magazine | April 2019

75 ates its own wastewater treatment plant, but we’re in the process of getting a line extended from that facility to the county’s joint sewer administration, so we can decommission that plant. That will make things a little bit easier in terms of being attractive to non-aviation business, because wastewater treatment would be available through that system. Gas lines would have to be brought in - that’s probably somewhat of a hindrance for one side of the airport, but electricity is easy to bring in. We do have about a 10-acre site that, basically, is fully-developed with all of those, so we’re, obviously, looking for clientele. And we have property on the southwest side that would not be in conflict with FAA’s Part 77 airspace requirements, so it would also be available for non-aviation purposes.” Meanwhile, renovations and improvements at Barkley Regional, the 5th busiest airport in Kentucky, are ongoing. “We just came out of a resurfacing of about half our taxiway network and we have 75-80 percent of our taxiway lighting systems now based on LEDs,” Roof reports. “We’re hoping to finish that out within the next year, as well as do LEDs on the pri- mary runway, and, possibly, the secondary. In