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We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

Save the Elk River

Target: Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Governor, West Virginia Governor's office
Sponsor: Eric Olmstead, none
  • Signatures: 921
  • Goal: 5,000
  • Deadline: 1-6-2006
The Elk River is a diverse stream that supports a myriad of species and is now in danger due to a proposed treatment plant at it's headwaters.This must be stopped as well,due to the historic nature of the proposed site.

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922 10:49 am PDT, Sep 26 Bobby Bower
921 3:11 pm PDT, Jul 23 Anonymous
920 7:20 am PDT, Jul 19 Pat Ryan
919 6:41 pm PDT, Jul 10 Dale Caswell
918 1:18 pm PDT, Jun 6 Anonymous
917 9:42 am PDT, May 5 Terri Walston
916 7:58 am PDT, May 2 James Walston
915 10:22 am PDT, May 1 Grant Durham
914 3:29 pm PDT, Apr 28 JAMES SULLIVAN
913 12:03 pm PDT, Apr 24 peter febbroriello
912 4:12 am PDT, Mar 27 Shannon Sultan
911 7:14 am PDT, Mar 22 Laura Brooks
910 10:16 pm PDT, Mar 18 John W Ott
909 9:07 am PST, Feb 17 Mark Leonard
908 2:22 am PST, Feb 17 terry l. west
907 3:06 pm PST, Feb 13 Tatiana Costa
906 10:56 pm PST, Feb 10 Laurel Watson
905 6:08 pm PST, Feb 10 Christine Taylor
904 5:34 pm PST, Feb 1 Richard Jarvis
903 3:42 pm PST, Jan 30 Brooke McDavid
901 5:46 am PST, Jan 27 Alessandro Barracciu
900 5:46 am PST, Jan 27 Laura Tatti
899 11:34 am PST, Jan 19 Karen Gray
898 9:45 am PST, Jan 13 Annie Bertrand
897 2:52 am PST, Jan 13 mireille azouzou
896 2:54 pm PST, Jan 12 elisabeth karcher
895 3:30 am PST, Jan 12 jean-damien Susini
894 3:29 am PST, Jan 12 chantal Chavassieux
893 3:28 am PST, Jan 12 alexandra susini
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890 2:30 pm PST, Jan 9 michele quintric
889 8:36 am PST, Jan 8 Severine stockling,
888 9:36 am PST, Dec 31 Anonymous
887 5:04 am PST, Dec 29 germain puerta
886 11:44 am PST, Dec 28 Simos Tarabatzis
885 1:36 pm PST, Dec 22 Anonymous
884 10:56 pm PST, Dec 16 Cheryl Atwell
883 5:24 pm PST, Dec 15 Terrie C. Williams
882 1:05 pm PST, Dec 2 Ines Seidel
881 3:06 pm PST, Nov 27 Richard G.Hill
880 3:59 am PST, Nov 19 Eloise bussiere
879 9:58 am PST, Nov 16 Anne Seidel
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871 10:29 am PDT, Oct 16 Linda Greene
870 6:32 pm PDT, Oct 15 Elaine Sutcliffe
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861 10:57 pm PDT, Oct 12 Melissa Smith
860 9:51 pm PDT, Oct 12 Sarah Wheatley
859 7:16 pm PDT, Oct 12 Stephanie Huhmann
858 4:55 pm PDT, Oct 12 Christine Kamradt
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855 2:03 pm PDT, Oct 12 Alan May
854 1:42 pm PDT, Oct 12 Tatiana Seiça
853 12:24 pm PDT, Oct 12 Sandy Rusch
852 6:23 am PDT, Oct 12 Alicia Morales
851 8:45 pm PDT, Oct 11 Anonymous

Save the Elk River

It is my wish as a voting american that the state of West Virginia stops the actions being taken by the Pocahontas County Public Service Commission in conjuction with Intrawest/Snowshoe corp.as to the proposed sewage treatment plant at the Big Spring of the Elk river on the property of the Sharp family's historic family farm in the town of Slatyfork.

The proposed site is on sensitive karst topography, within the hundred year flood zone, and the effluent discharge will be at the Big Spring of the Elk river which is habitat for the imperiled Cambarus Elkensis, a cray fish as well as native reproducing brook trout and wild reproducing brown and rainbow trout. Within this same eco-system one can also find the endangered Cheat Mtn. Salamander as well as the endangered West Virginia Northen Flying Squirrel. This area is part of the same dynamic cave system that is home to the endangered Indiana Bat as well.

The field that the proposed site will be built on is also known to be an encampment for Gen. Robert E. Lee's army during his first campaign of the civil war.At this site there are three known buried civil war soldiers as well. This site has an even deeper history with the Native American community as there have been artifacts such as a burial pendant found there.Some of the artifacts found date back to 7700 B.C.

The other problem with this site is the lack of room for a cooling pond for it's effluent nor any positive solutions for the toxic sludge disposal. Nor is there enough room for any type of settling troughs for full filtration of solids within the effluent. The effluent will also contain phosphorous which there are no current regulations for within West Virginia DEP guidelines.So heat, sediment and phosphorous will be poured at the rate of 1.5 million gallons a day into the Elk river. These three things are known to destroy cold water watersheds and organisms contained therein.

The other problem which exists is the fact that the site is being forcibly taken by law of eminent domain by the Pocahontas county PSD in conjuction with Intrawest corp.This farm has been in the Sharp family for generations and is directly three hundred yards downwind of the Sharp family Bed and Breakfast.

Based on these facts this petition is being submitted with intentions of stopping this proposition by Pocahontas County PSD and Intrawest corp. and their interest in building a sewage treatment plant in Pocahontas County.Furthermore we would like to be sure that if another site is chosen an extensive environmental impact study be submitted for review which did not happen with the currently proposed site.

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