Current River Conditions
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How’s My Waterway?
Water quality in our local watershed by zipcode
Information on swimming, eating fish, and aquatic life
Restoration and protection efforts
Discharge permits
Identified Issues (impairments and discharge violations)
Local drinking water information
Water monitoring information
Travel the West Fork
Virtual tour of the river from Earthviews and the Izaak Walton League, photographed by the Guardians.
Latest Posts
Celebrating the West Fork Valley
Longtime Guardians volunteers Mike Murphy and Jim Nedrow testing for pollution at the mouth of Lambert Run The Guardians are launching a new speaker series to celebrate 25 years of cleaning up the West Fork River and promoting recreation on the river. The first talk, by Senior Water Research Scientist, Mel Shafer, West Virginia Water…
Stream Partners Grant Fuels River Conservation Efforts
Guardians Board and members Randy Kesling, Robert Helfer, Sally Egan, Lisa deGruyter, and Al Cox, in new volunteer recognition hats and caps, hold our new Water Trail signs, all funded by a previous Stream Partners Grant. The Guardians have been awarded a 2026 Stream Partners Program Grant, which will continue to support our work in…
Vernal Pools
Our Watershed is not just the West Fork River and the creeks that run into it. It is all the land and water in our West Fork Valley, and everything and everyone that is supported or affected by it. Save Our Streams has a yearly program for volunteers to check out the seasonal pools that…
Abandoned Mine Lands Cuts
This time last year, the Guardians had expected to get funding under three grants we had applied for in May 2023 to match funding from the Clean Water Act which West Virginia Water Research Institute at WVU had received to expand and improve our Lambert Run project. The project, over the 25 years we have…
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