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In 2002, Sterlite Technologies Limited was the subject of a major lawsuit, [34] by Fitel USA, a subsidiary of Furukawa Electric charging Sterlite Technologies Limited with infringement of a number of optical fiber patents including those related to manufacturing fiber with low polarization mode dispersion. This lawsuit was settled in Jan 2010.
It included all areas west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, constituting all of present West Virginia. By 1739, Thomas Shepherd had constructed a flour mill powered by water from the Town Run or the Falling Springs Branch of the Potomac River. Shepherd, along with Isaac Garrison and John Welton, established the present town of Shepherdstown in ...
The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a natural gas pipeline constructed from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. The MVP is 303 miles (488 km) long, and there is also a proposed Southgate Extension which will run 75 miles (121 km) from Virginia into North Carolina. [ 1 ]
As another surge of COVID-19 grows across the nation, the global pandemic is hitting home in Doddridge County.
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Sixty-three percent of stream beds near coalfields within the Appalachia mountains have been identified as "impaired" due to high toxic chemical and metal contamination. [10] In West Virginia, 14 counties are experiencing water that exceeds safe drinking water standards by seven times more than non-mining counties. [20]
The Potomac Water Gap is a double water gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains, located at the intersection of the states of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, near Harpers Ferry. At 256 feet (78 m), it is the lowest crossing of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
SNOWSHOE, W.Va. (WBOY) — West Virginia’s higher elevations got a taste of winter overnight on Monday and woke up to the state’s first snow of the season Tuesday morning.