I received a great tip yesterday from Kelly Jo Drey Houck, Executive Director of the Upper Guyandotte Watershed Association, about a TV News story that aired Tuesday highlighting the UGWA's great work to end residential straight pipe discharges in Wyoming County, West Virginia and get people onto septic systems. UGWA's outreach efforts to the community are really making a differnce. However, the reason Kelly Jo contacted me was to let me know that our Fishing, Not, Flushing Bumper Stickers made it on the air - TWICE! send you one.

West Virginia Rivers Coalition (WVRC) and its neighbors in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and other states have spent a large part of our time during the past year working to stop a proposal by the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) that would have lowered water quality standards for the entire length of the Ohio River-- 981 miles-- by allowing more sewage-related bacteria into the river during periods of heavy rain, snowmelt, and high water.