The Whitesburg Campus of Southeast Community College is also closed today. The Letcher County Health Department has issued a set of instructions for water users. I’ll get a copy and post those as soon as possible. Posted by Sam
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Diesel Fuel Spoils City Water Supply
Whitesburg residents should avoid using city water for anything other than flushing toilets until tests show that diesel fuel has been purged from the water system. Diesel can cause eye and skin irritation, and if the fuel is aspirated (breathed…
Brownfields Workshop in Prestonsburg
Did you know this is a Brownfield and could potentially be eligible for $200,000 in cleanup? Posted by Evan Smith, OSM/VISTA In an effort to educate communities about brownfield redevelopment, the Kentucky Brownfield Program has scheduled three brownfield funding and…
WYMT Brownfields Grant Interview
WYMT Brownfields Grant Interview Amanda Price of WYMT interviews Head of Three Rivers VISTA Sam Adams about the recent $400,000 grant from Brownfields.
Progress
Since my term as OSM/VISTA expired, I’ve been behind the scenes (at times not in the scene at all.).Lately though I’ve been thinking that we are quite close to reaching the critical continuity/mass necessary to tie together various Letcher Co.…
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…
The Letcher County Brownfields Assessment Project
The Head of Three Rivers Project partnered with the Letcher County Conservation District in 2007 to write two proposals to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for assessment of Mine-Scarred Lands Brownfields. In April, the agency awarded the district two $200,000…
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…
Introducing Me
I’m Sam Adams, and I’ll be the voice from the ether on this blog. I would call myself the new VISTA for The Head of Three Rivers Project, but I’ve been here since November. You haven’t heard from me before…