Even before last week's chemical spill fouled tap water in nine counties in West Virginia, where more than 200,000 people still cannot use their water after seven long days, it was not unusual to ...

The river is lined with so many chemical facilities that the area where the Kanawha cuts through the Charleston region is known as Chemical Valley. In the 1980s, Anderson recalls, swimmers ...

The $1.3 million study collected water quality and sediment data to evaluate the river as a potential alternate source of supply for its Kanawha Valley ... past industrial, chemical and mining ...

Nearly a year after the Freedom Industries chemical spill ... WVAWC’s Kanawha Valley Water Treatment facility has one water intake on the Elk River. According to McIntyre’s estimates, building ...

West Virginia American Water’s Kanawha Valley water treatment plant is located along the Elk River, which is a separate source water supply from the chemical plant. According to the company ...

West Virginia American Water said it is returning its Kanawha Valley water treatment ... In light of January's chemical leak into the same river, several emergency response agencies rushed to ...

Multiple lawsuits are expected to follow the first one filed over exposure to ethylene oxide in the Kanawha Valley ... Court against Union Carbide, Dow Chemical, Bayer and others for alleged ...

Singling out the Ohio River Valley ... from a category of chemical manufacturers the agency said earlier this year covers four facilities in West Virginia, including two in Kanawha County.

The Kanawha River lies in a very deep, narrow valley, parallel to the great Alleghany Mountain masses, from which a very slight descent takes the current to the Ohio River, north and northwest.

Starting high in the hills of Upshur County, the Little Kanawha River flows 169 miles through the heart of West Virginia ...

Salt is one of the most abundant chemical ... the Ohio River to Cincinnati for the preservation of food, specifically for pork. Although salt production occurred in the Kanawha Valley in the ...