Public Meeting on Proposed Antero Landfill Project

Community Groups to Host PUBLIC MEETING on Proposed Antero Resources’ Landfill Project on September 13, 2016

Community members are encouraged to come learn about what could be changing in Ritchie and Doddridge Counties.
 
West Virginia Rivers Coalition and Friends of the Hughes River Watershed Association will host a community meeting concerning Antero Resources’ proposed landfill and wastewater treatment facility to be located in Ritchie and Doddridge Counties.
 
 WHAT:  Antero Landfill Community Meeting
 
 WHEN: Tuesday, September 13 at 6:00pm
 
 WHERE: Harrisville Women’s Club,  121 W. Main St., Harrisville WV 26362
 
Representatives from Antero, WV Department of Environmental Protection and consulting firm Downstream Strategies will provide information on details of the proposed project, environmental and health considerations, and permitting requirements and processes. There will be time allotted for a question and answer session.
 
About the proposed Antero Resources facility: The project involves the largest-scale and first of its kind facility in the Appalachian region to treat “fracking” wastewater. A landfill will be built to dispose of the salt byproduct from the wastewater treatment process.

It is proposed as a 26-year construction project on a 486-acre site spanning Ritchie and Doddridge Counties. Construction will impact 89 streams and 11 wetlands. Once active, the site will generate 1.46 billion pounds of salt and 146 million pounds of toxic sludge per year.

The proposed facility would be located within the Zone of Peripheral Concern for the Hughes River Water Board, which sells bulk water to Pennsboro, Harrisville and Cairo in Ritchie County. WV Rivers Coalition has prepared a fact sheet available here.
 
CONTACTS:
Angie Rosser, 304-437-1274, arosser@wvrivers.org
Vickie Nutter, friendsofthehughes@yahoo.com
 
Source: Jami R. Thompson, Watershed Resource Center Coordinator, 1900 Kanawha Blvd., East; Charleston, WV 25305
(304) 558-0382, (800) 682-7866 (In W.Va.)
http://www.wvca.us/wvwrc/index.cfm
 

WV Rivers Coalition has been working with local partners in Doddridge and Ritchie Counties to educate and empower impacted communities where Antero Resources is proposing to site a large-scale fracking waste landfill. With your help we sent 160 comments to WVDEP on the Water Quality Certification and Stormwater permits. The stormwater permit comment period was extended to Sept 3. If you haven’t submitted your comments yet, you can do so here.

We are co-hosting a public meeting with Friends of the Hughes River Watershed Association on the proposed facility Sept 13 at the Women’s Club in Harrisville, WV.

 Join us – more info here:

https://3ed59980-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/wvrivers/archive/anteromeeting.pdf