The Upper Cumberland River Watershed Watch has announced a date for this year’s conference. It will be held at Somerset Community College on Saturday, May 18th. For more information, below is an agenda. Hope to see you there!
Recent Spring Service Projects
Headwaters, Inc. has been very busy lately with service projects that highlight environmental stewardship and community service! Below are some pictures from two of our most recent projects. Clean-up of the Kentucky River’s North Fork with Mountain Alliance volunteers Trail…
March 30th Reforestation at Fishtrap Lake
On March 30th, 2013, 30 student volunteers from Letcher County Central High School participated in reforesting a pre-regulatory strip job at Fishtrap Lake, Pike County. Among the other participants were students from Oberlin College, AmeriCorps VISTA members, and a full AmeriCorps…
Spring 2013 Stream Clean-up at Campbell’s Branch Community Center
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KRWW 2012 Water Sampling Results – Pathogens
Every year, Headwaters partners with the Kentucky River Watershed Watch (KRWW) to gather data on herbicides, pathogens, metals and nutrients within the Letcher County watershed of the Kentucky River. Below we have provided a map that plots all of the points in…
New Web-Tools Address Need for Water Monitoring in Letcher County
In June of 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire. Filled for decades with raw sewage and various pollutants, Time Magazine once described the Cuyahoga as the river that “oozes rather than flows,” and in which a person…