Feb 10, 2021
CHARLESTON The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has canceled three events for spring and summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canceled for the second consecutive year was the Make It Shine Earth Day Celebration, West Virginia Youth Environmental Day and Junior Conservation Camp. The events also were canceled in 2020 because of COVID restrictions.
“It is with heartfelt sadness that we are announcing the cancellation of these events,” said Annette Hoskins, director of the Youth Environmental Program (YEP). “We understand how important they are to the young people of our state and we recognize their tremendous value from an environmental education standpoint. But, after much discussion regarding logistical issues and taking into account the significant amount of uncertainty still surrounding COVID-19, we did not feel we could move forward with the events and guarantee the safety of all those involved.”
FAIRMONT — In 2016, the city of Fairmont teamed up with Fairmont State University to clean up the Coal Run Stream where the university’s storm water flows to.
Karst: It’s where we live
By Delegate John Doyle - Report From the Legislature | Feb 5, 2021
Jefferson County sits on a block of “karst.” That’s terrain constituted mostly of porous, soluble rock (in our case largely limestone), and is marked by sinkholes and caves.
Much of eastern West Virginia is karst, although the nature of that karst varies from region to region. Karst terrain is found as far west as eastern Monongalia County and as far south as Monroe County. But no county has a greater percentage of terrain that is karst than Jefferson.
Groundwater behaves differently in karst than it does in other types of terrain. Underground streams flow in different directions, and can change direction, so we don’t always know where underground water’s been, and therefore if it’s polluted. And underground water sometimes surfaces into small streams.
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