Month: April 2008

Indiana Teams Help Clean Riverbanks

Students from Bethany Christian School in Goshen, Ind., put a big dent in the litter problem along about 50 yards of riverbank in Letcher County. A group of 12 students and two chaperones visited Letcher County this week to learn…

High School Classes Build Wetlands

Students at Letcher County Central High School built a wetland at the school this week as part of their science curriculum. The wetlands, which is about 40 feet in diameter, is on a part of the school property where students…

Conservation District gets $400,000 for Brownfields

The US Environmental Protection Agency today announced two grants totalling $400,000 to the Letcher County Conservation District to assess brownfields in Letcher County. Both grants are under the agency’s Mine Scarred Lands program. One is specifically intended to study petroleum…