A Huge Cave in Kentucky Was a Smelly Disaster. Now It's Spectacular.
And then, just down the block, across from GeeGa's home décor shop, there's a cave.
For generations, the cave was all but lost to the town on top of it. Miles of caverns and waterways brimmed with sewage that sent a putrid stench up from the depths and across downtown.
Then came an audacious vision, a bit of money and a lot of grit. The town was going to clean the cave up.
50 States, 50 Fixes is a series about local solutions to environmental problems. More to come this year.
Today, Hidden River Cave is an underground biodiversity hot spot. (The town and the cave have different names.) There are 10 miles of winding passageways, streams and spectacular cave domes, and a museum dedicated to cave conservation. Translucent fish have returned to the cave's waters.
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