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Moreover, DuPont was only required to clean up drinking water in communities where C8 levels exceeded the EPA’s safety limit of 0.4 parts per billion. (A recent study concluded that even this figure may be more than 100 times too high.) The water in Parkersburg, where most of the plaintiffs lived, initially fell just below that threshold.
West Virginia American Water began lifting the "do-not-use" ban in downtown Charleston, and would begin phasing in use of the system's drinking water based upon "priority zones." [9] By the evening of January 13, 15 percent of West Virginia American Water's customers were permitted to begin using the drinking water. [24]
This is a list of Superfund sites in West Virginia designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contamination. [1]
Oct. 22—2 Marion County water projects funded by W.Va. IJDC CHARLESTON — Two Marion County water projects were among a list of nine approved oct. 13 by the West Virginia Infrastructure and ...
The forcing of the spring to the surface can be the result of a confined aquifer in which the recharge area of the spring water table rests at a higher elevation than that of the outlet. Spring water forced to the surface by elevated sources are artesian wells. This is possible even if the outlet is in the form of a 300-foot-deep (91 m) cave.
Run in Ohio, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia can be the name of a stream. [24] Run in Florida is the name given to streams coming out of small natural springs. [25] River is used for streams from larger springs like the Silver River and Rainbow River.
Morgan's Grove is a rural historic district near Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The area is noted for its abundant springs. Several historic houses and farms are in the district, including: Old Stone House and springhouse, c. 1734, belonged to the original settler and family patriarch, Richard Morgan.
Spring Creek is a tributary of the Little Kanawha River in western West Virginia in the United States.Via the Little Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 89 square miles (230 km 2) [5] in a rural region on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.