Tag: Putnam County

W.Va. Schools Selected to Receive Sustainability Grants

Sixteen schools in eight West Virginia counties will share more than $12,200 in grants for sustainability projects.

The grants are provided by the state Department of Environmental Protection and ZMM Architects & Engineers as part of the Green Apple Day of Service, which is scheduled for Sept. 26.

The day of service gives students, teachers, parents, and residents an opportunity to volunteer with local schools in an effort to create safer, healthier and more efficient learning environments.

The projects are in Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Monongalia, Putnam, Upshur and Wayne counties.

Landfill, Hurricane and County Settle Chemical Suit

A landfill, the city of Hurricane and the Putnam County Commission have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the facility’s acceptance of waste from a chemical spill site.

The Charleston Daily Mail reports that the County Commission approved the settlement agreement on Tuesday.

The county and the city sued Disposal Service Inc. and Waste Management of West Virginia in May 2014 after they learned the landfill had accepted liquid and solid waste from a Freedom Industries site in Charleston. A January 2014 spill at the site prompted a ban on tap water use for 300,000 residents for days.

The agreement includes monitoring the landfill in Hurricane for the coal-cleaning chemical MCHM for five years. The landfill would shut down its aeration process and leachate discharge if MCHM is detected.

Students in Putnam County to Participate in Budget Simulation

The West Virginia Treasurer’s Office will host its first county-wide Get a Life budget simulation over the next two days in Putnam County.

The program for eighth grade students in Putnam County will show them how a budget is put together. The two-day event, Tuesday and Wednesday at the Navy Reserve Center, will also teach kids the importance of properly handling money.

More than 700 eighth grade students have been invited to participate in the financial education activity entitled Get a Life. It’s an interactive activity that engages students with realistic family budget scenarios.

Students from all four middle schools will participate. It’s the first time the activity has been organized on a county-wide level. More than 50 community volunteers, including several mayors and other officials are expected to take part. 

Loaded Gun Found in Woman's Bag at Yeager Airport

A Putnam County woman won't face charges after a loaded gun was found in her carry-on bag at Yeager Airport.The Transportation Security Administration…

A Putnam County woman won’t face charges after a loaded gun was found in her carry-on bag at Yeager Airport.

The Transportation Security Administration says TSA officers staffing X-ray machines at a checkpoint detected the .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun Wednesday morning.

The agency says in a news release that the gun was loaded with seven rounds, including one in the chamber.

Yeager Airport Police confiscated the gun but chose not to arrest the Scott Depot woman.

The federal agency says the woman missed her flight to Atlanta.

Airport Police Chief Robert Long tells the Charleston Daily Mail that the woman told officers she forgot the gun was in her purse. He says the woman has a West Virginia concealed carry permit.

Long says the incident was “just an oops.”

Federal Judge Sets Trial in Landfill Suit

A federal judge has set a June 2015 trial date for a lawsuit filed against a Hurricane landfill that accepted wastewater from Freedom Industries in the wake of the January chemical leak.
The city of Hurricane and the Putnam County Commission filed a lawsuit in May asking that Waste Management of West Virginia be required to remove the wastewater mixed with sawdust from its landfill.

The material contains traces of the crude MCHM that spilled Jan. 9, contaminating 300,000 people’s drinking water for days.

 
The Charleston Gazette reports that the city and county want the company to pay for the removal.

 
Attorneys for the landfill argue the EPA doesn’t consider the crude MCHM a hazardous waste when spilled or discarded under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
 

Patriot Coal Moving Charleston Office to Putnam County

Patriot Coal is relocating its West Virginia office in Charleston to Scott Depot in Putnam County.Patriot spokeswoman Janine Orf says the St. Louis-based…

  Patriot Coal is relocating its West Virginia office in Charleston to Scott Depot in Putnam County.

Patriot spokeswoman Janine Orf says the St. Louis-based coal company plans to make the switch in late summer or early fall.

The Charleston office has about 100 employees.

The company has 10 active mining complexes, with eight in West Virginia and two in western Kentucky. Patriot employs about 4,000 people across the whole company.

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