Three rivers begin in Letcher County, Kentucky. The Kentucky, the Cumberland and the Big Sandy are all born on the high slopes of Pine Mountain, but before the rivers leave the county they are too polluted to wade in. Like…
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Letcher County Submits Application for Sewage Treatment Plant
The Kentucky Division of Water is in the process of reviewing the application for a new sewage treatment plant Letcher County plans to build near Blackey. The following notice was published today by the Division of Water: ROCKHOUSE CREEK WASTEWATER…
Article in This Week’s Mountain Eagle about Recent Site Tour
Posted by Evan Smith, OSM/VISTA The following article appeared in the August 22nd edition of The Mountain Eagle, which is now available on the web at http://www.themountaineagle.com/ Water, sewer projects focus of tour More than 10 years of progress seen…
“Creek in Crisis” By NYU Tisch Students Chelsea Connor Ines Garcia Rebecca Robertson & Ariana Schrier
\”Creek in Crisis\” Video Students from Letcher County Central High School (Whitesburg, Kentucky) Investigative Science Class sampling abandoned mine drainage on Dry Fork (tributary to the North Fork of the Kentucky River). sample results and more info available from www.letcherwater.com…
AMD and Art Webcast Tommorrow
Posted by Evan Smith, OSM/VISTA AMD & Art Webcast Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Two-hour audio Web broadcast Eastern: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) & ART: Combining Science and Art Building constituencies across disciplinary and physical boundaries can be…
Summary of June 16th, 2007 Watershed Watch Training
Posted by Evan Smith, OSM/VISTA This post is to summarize information about this weekend’s Lilley Cornett Woods Watershed Watch Trainings. The day is broken down into two segments, a Phase 1 for new volunteers and a Phase 2 for experienced…
Phase 1 Component of June 16th Watershed Watch Training at Lilley Cornett Woods
Posted by Evan Smith, OSM/VISTA In response to those of you that have been wanting to get the basic Watershed Watch Phase 1 Training – the part that certifies you to take samples of water and have the lab analyze…
Phase 2 Watershed Watch Training, June 16th, Lilley Cornett Woods
Posted by Evan Smith, OSM/VISTA Isn’t it cute? On June 16th, 2007, Ken Cooke is going to be leading a free Phase 2 Watershed Watch training to teach everyone how to identify cuddly creature like this Helgramite. Why look at…
UCWW Training Next Week
Upper Cumberland Volunteer Stream Monitoring Training Posted by Evan Smith, OSM/VISTA The Watershed Watch training that was set to be on April 7th was forced to be canceled and has been rescheduled for this week. So now, on Monday April…
Watershed Watch training in Whitesburg
Posted by Evan Smith, OSM/VISTA I think perhaps i didn’t emphasize this enough in the previous post about WW… On Saturday, April 7th there’s going to be a Watershed Watch training in Whitesburg at Southeast Community College from 9am-1pm. This…