Stewardship Resources
Knowledge That Helps Protect Elks Run
Explore educational programs, local water-quality resources,
technical reports, and research supporting the understanding
and stewardship of the Elks Run watershed.
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Educational & Community Resources
Education
Project WET
An interdisciplinary water education program providing K–12
teachers and educators with hands-on classroom activities
through training workshops.
Drinking Water
Safe Water for West Virginia
A program of West Virginia Rivers Coalition helping connect
people with efforts to protect local drinking water supplies.
Watershed Education
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Information and resources about how local communities influence
the health of the Chesapeake, including field programs,
volunteer activities and fact sheets.
Stream Monitoring
Save Our Streams
An opportunity to involve teachers and students in biological
monitoring of streams.
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County & State Publications
West Virginia DEP
Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Reports
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USGS Reports & Publications
USGS · 2008
Hydrogeology and Water Quality of the Leetown Area, WV
USGS · 2005Fracture Trace Map and Single-well Aquifer Test Results
Fracture Trace Map and Single-well Aquifer Test Results
in Carbonate Aquifer in Jefferson County, WV
USGS · 2008Hydrogeologic Setting and Ground-water Flow in the
Hydrogeologic Setting and Ground-water Flow in the
Leetown Area, WV
USGS · 2002Synopsis of Karst Investigations Conducted in Jefferson
Synopsis of Karst Investigations Conducted in Jefferson
and Berkeley Counties, WV
USGS · 2008Simulation of Ground-Water Flow in a Fractured-Rock
Simulation of Ground-Water Flow in a Fractured-Rock
Karst Aquifer, Shenandoah Valley, Leetown, WV
Report · 2004Berkeley County, WV, Source Water Analysis and
Berkeley County, WV, Source Water Analysis and
Protection Program
Report · 2003
Smart Growth for Clean Water
USGS · 2008Estimating Recharge to Heterogeneous Fractured-Rock and