Comprehensive Survey of the Lower Kanawha River Basin: Volume III: Problems, Concerns, Alternative Solutions, and a Suggested Plan
Soil Conservation Service | Forest Service | Economic Research Service | West Virginia Department of Natural Resources
Excerpts: The primary purpose of this study is to improve or retain the quality of life in the Lower Kanawha River Basin by attaining the following objectives: 1. To enhance National Economic Development (NED) by increasing the value of the Nation ‘s output of goods and services and improving national economic efficiency. 2. To enhance the quality of the environment (EQ) by management, conservation, preservation, creation, restoration, or improvement of the quality of certain natural and cultural resources and ecological systems. The goal of the study was to evaluate problems, establish objectives, present alternative solutions to problems, and recommend a plan for orderly development of the water and related land resources after giving full consideration to the environmental, economic, and other related impacts. The Lower Kanawha River Basin is located in southwestern West Virginia in the heart of the Appalachian Plateau Province, an area with extensive energy resources of coal, oil, gas, and timber. The study area contains 1,176,000 acres (1,838 square miles) and includes all lands drained by the Kanawha River from the confluence of the Elk River downstream to the confluence with the Ohio River at Point Pleasant. The area includes parts of Boone, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Putnam, Raleigh, and Roane Counties.
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