Any posts dated from before 2019
The Potomac Riverkeeper Network is your river protector year in and year out — we do the hard work of identifying pollution sources that contaminate the river and figuring out how to stop them. We step in to stop pollution when others fail to do so — when federal and state agencies can’t or won’t … Read More
PRKN has received the following analytical results for lab samples sent in on Friday, April 26, 2019. Verso Luke Mill Black Liquid Investigation Sample Results Related Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) investigation reports: MDE Inspection Report – 4/9/2019 MDE Investigation Photos – 4/9/2019 MDE Inspection Report – 4/25/2019 MDE Investigation Photos – 4/25/2019
Would you be willing to take a minute of your time to tell EPA weakening coal ash regulations is a really bad idea? I testified last week at the public hearing held by the Environmental Protection Agency on its incredibly ill-founded new proposed regulations concerning disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCR) or toxic coal ash … Read More
NPDES Morgantown Report PDF
19 09 25 PRKN Letter MDE Morgantown Inspection
Our rivers are such a source of pleasure as well as giving us our sustaining drinking water. In addition to the latter, though, we strive to increase our access for recreation. Those of us who have the luxury of working on and near the water understand that and those of you who can and do … Read More
As part of my work to investigate and remediate pollution in the Upper Potomac, I recently conducted a stream assessment for the presence of PFAS— extremely toxic chemicals — in two tributaries of the Opeqoun creek, Evans Run and Cold Spring Run. The sample sites were the same locations that West Virginia’s Department of Environmental … Read More
Read the PRNK and Shenandoah Riverkeeper comments on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Draft Chesapeake Bay TMDL Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan here. Attachment A Attachment B
Don’t let Dominion do an end run around the courts and federal agencies – we need your help to preserve the Appalachian Trail and the beautiful, pristine Shenandoah! After losing in the courts and federal agencies, Dominion still won’t quit in its effort to build the unnecessary and environmentally disastrous Atlantic Coast Pipeline. They are … Read More
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