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 ...

Plastic was invented here, and that`s just one reason the Kanawha Valley is called the chemical center of the world by those who work here. In many ways it is the fountainhead of the U.S. chemical … ...

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 above diagram will materially assist the reader in forming a correct idea of the scene of the recent operations in the Kanawha Valley ... commanded the New River, and the National camp ...

The Elk River carried the chemical and contaminated the Kanawha Valley water supply, according to West Virginia American Water Co. The water provider issued a “do not use” order to customers ...

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 ...