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The quality of the surface water resources of the New River has been studied in recent years by both the State of West Virginia and New River Gorge Park Resource Management staff. Data from these studies suggest the presence of metals, organic contaminants and influx of raw sewage are common in many tributaries of the New River.
The Dry Fork is a 39.1-mile-long (62.9 km) [2] tributary of the Black Fork of the Cheat River in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA.Via the Black Fork, the Cheat, and the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.
This was exacerbated by the surface mining activities of the 1960s and '70s, [citation needed] which brought about a severe decline in water quality due to acid mine drainage (AMD). In recent years, the limestone treatment of AMD in the Blackwater River has met with success with the effort receiving an award from the U.S. Office of Surface ...
The Kanawha River (/ k ə ˈ n ɔː ə / kə-NAW-ə) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 97 mi (156 km) long, in the U.S. state of West Virginia.The largest inland waterway in West Virginia, its watershed has been a significant industrial region of the state since early in the 19th century.
Cheat Lake is a 13-mile-long (21 km) reservoir on the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. [2] It was originally named Lake Lynn, but the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Cheat Lake as the reservoir's name in 1976. [1] Cheat Lake is located immediately downstream of the 10-mile-long (16 km) Cheat Canyon.
A USGS stream gauge on the creek near Richwood recorded a mean annual discharge of 233.6 cu ft/s (6.61 m 3 /s) during water years 1945-2019. The highest annual mean discharge during the period was 318 cu ft/s (9.0 m 3 /s) in water year 1979, and the lowest was 126.2 cu ft/s (3.57 m 3 /s) in water year 1999.
The Coal River is a tributary of the Kanawha River in southern West Virginia. It is formed near the community of Alum Creek by the confluence of the Big and Little Coal Rivers, and flows generally northward through western Kanawha County, past the community of Upper Falls and into the Kanawha River at St. Albans.