The KD#2 permit, approved by the DEP in May 2014 over strong community objections and warnings of likely impacts to water quality, allowed for strip mining and explosive blasting within 588 feet of Kanawha State Forest and 1500 feet of homes in Loudendale, just outside Charleston city limits.
The profit comes after the Solid Waste Authority decided to no longer accept recyclables from businesses, started bringing recyclables to Beckley instead of WV Cashin and went through a quasi-takeover by the Kanawha County Commission.
More than 20 counties are under a flash flood watch, and the National Weather Service said downpours are possible in many areas already ravaged by flooding, including Kanawha and Nicholas.
One or two of the cars plunged into the Kanawha River, said Robert Jelacic of the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
boops were collected from five sampling efforts during 1999 to 2005 within the South Fork Hughes River drainage of the Little Kanawha River drainage, West Virginia (Fig.