Stream Monitoring Training: Watch Over Mountaineer Xpress Pipeline Construction

OVEC will host another stream monitoring training in the Huntington area, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 30, with lunch provided. We have a limit on how many we can train. If you are interested, please contact [email protected] right away.

At this training you’ll learn to effectively monitor water quality along pipeline routes before, during and after pipeline construction. 

After the initial training, you can choose how much or how little to be involved, from rotating monitoring tasks at a single site with other citizen monitors, or leading in our efforts to train other individuals and expand our monitoring capacity. 

We curretly have teams monitoring streams impacted by the construction of the Mountaineer Xpress Pipeline (MXP) in Putnam, Wayne, Jackson, Cabell, and Roane counties. We need more volunteers to join the teams at existing sites and to monitor new locations. 

Citizen monitoring and reporting to WV DEP resulted in work stoppage order for the Rover Pipeline. Now that MXP is starting to make messes wherever construction is occurring, it is important that we carry out our inspections more frequently, hence the need for more volunteers. 

To our current stream testing volunteers: The stream monitoring you are doing is even more important than ever at this time. If you see something that looks out of line, please take photos or videos, note the date, time and location (with GPS coordinates if possible), and send the information to [email protected], so that she and others can determine if a report to DEP or other regulatory officials is necessary. 

If you see construction happening in your area and can possibly step up the number of times per month you visit your stream site(s), please do. If you have friends interested in helping you, please let them know about this training. 

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