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WaterFaire at Panhandle Earth Day Saturday, April 21 at 10 am – 7 pm Sam Michaels Park 1516 Job Corps Rd, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 25442 Do you drink water? Cook with it, and wash with it? Give it to your pet? Want to have some fun learning your watershed address and how to keep […]

Safe Water for WV was developed in 2015 to provide community education around a new legal requirement for source water protection planning. The law grew from the tragic 2014 drinking water crisis that left nearly 1 in 5 West Virginians without safe water. WV Rivers championed the new law, and is now working to help […]

If you checked out the Elks Run Homeowner Series of videos, you may have noticed that the opening sequence gives a clue to the origins of the Elks Run Watershed logo, and quite possibly to the naming of Elks Run itself. Look closely at the map (left) of Harpers Ferry and the highlighted tributaries that […]

Source Water Protection Plan Implementation A new guide recently published by West Virginia Rivers Coalition, Source Water Protection Plan Implementation, provides information to utilities and watershed groups about Source Water Protection Plans (SWPPs) and Watershed based Plans (WBPs) to encourage collaboration in areas where there is overlap between the two plans. The guide also provides approaches […]