Giving old dams new life could spark an energy boom
Out of about 90,000 dams in the U.S., few generate hydropower. A push to retrofit nonpowered dams could change that....
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Cheat River Festival welcomes new era
After a two-year absence, the Cheat River Festival returns to Albright today from 5:30-10 p.m. and tomorrow from 11:30 a.m....
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Morgantown lock and dam trash eyesore
This problem has a history. Go to our Upper Mon River Association website, uppermonriver.org, and click on Floating Trash. There...
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Proposed dam removal the next step in Cheat River’s amazing comeback
The decommissioned Albright Power station is idle, so the dam is no longer necessary for power generation. The goal now...
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City in talks with Army Corps of Engineers regarding river trash collector
MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown and its partners have invested millions with the hope of pulling people to the...
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FOC raising money for road work
April 4, 2022 by William Dean, The Dominion Post Friends of the Cheat is trying to raise $10,000 to maintain access to...
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On the Mon Monsterology
Be glad our Morgantown On the Mon monster is not a KRAKEN! History about ON THE MON monster depicted in...
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Be Inspired by the Upper Mon River Association’s New Print
Lucky to be a river town, Morgantown has all kinds of fun flowing right alongside it. The Upper Mon River Association is...
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Local watershed groups make plans for windfall of Abandoned Mine Lands funds for acid mine drainage projects
Two local watershed groups are looking forward to opportunities to receive new federal infrastructure money to support their missions of...
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Restoring the Cheat River’s Glory
As a retired WVDNR fishery biologist who has worked, kayaked, and fished the entire Cheat River and most of its...
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