There’s no amount of money that will help restore Paint Creek to its former glory, said Andrea Shanklin, treasurer of the Paint Creek Watershed Association.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection “has initiated sampling and is awaiting results” on soil contaminated by a 2022 chemical spill into Paint Creek.
The state Department of Environmental Protection says it intends to test the soil along Paint Creek, after sampling by a Kanawha County Commission-paid contractor showed high concentrations of a chemical
Nearly a year to the day that 3,000 pounds of a toxic chemical spilled into Paint Creek, Dwight Siemiaczko and Donald Wiley used similar suffering metaphors.