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…
Our Home, Our Mission
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…