Infrastructure Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Jun 28

Infrastructure

My Cold Kentucky Home: Coal Country Turning To Solar As Heating And Housing Costs Climb

Joe Oliver and Tony Brown peered into the dark crawl space beneath a Letcher County, Kentucky, home. Already, they could see problems. The crawl space had been blocked off with just a thin sheet of plywood; the posts supporting the house rested on uneven blobs of poured concrete; the whole place reeked of mold. A […]

By Sydney Boles

Jun 28

Infrastructure

My Cold Kentucky Home: Coal Country Turning To Solar As Heating And Housing Costs Climb

By Sydney Boles

Feb 26

Infrastructure

Rural Broadband Funding Could Connect More Ohio Valley Communities To High-Speed Internet

Vivian Livingood is the mayor of Gilbert, a southern West Virginia town of under 500 people that has struggled for years without reliable internet. Livingood said that hampers Gilbert’s tourism, businesses and schools. “We get kicked off the internet here every two minutes, and that’s if we can afford the internet,” Livingood said. “And it’s […]

By Liam Niemeyer

Feb 26

Infrastructure

Rural Broadband Funding Could Connect More Ohio Valley Communities To High-Speed Internet

Liam Niemeyer

Nov 6

Infrastructure

Rates Increase Again For “Grim And Desperate” Martin County Water System

Kentucky’s Public Service Commission on Monday approved a rate increase for Martin County’s troubled water district but attached strict requirements to improve what it called “grim and desperate” conditions at the at the utility which has struggled to deliver clean water to many residents. Water has been a contentious issue for over a decade in […]

By Sydney Boles

Nov 6

Infrastructure

Rates Increase Again For “Grim And Desperate” Martin County Water System

Sydney Boles

Aug 30

Infrastructure

After Nearly Three Decades And $3 Billion, Olmsted Locks And Dam Open On Ohio

After nearly 30 years of construction and a budget that rose into the billions, Olmsted Locks and Dam passed the first tow barge through its system at a ceremony Thursday on the Ohio River. The $3 billion infrastructure improvement by the Army Corps of Engineers is the most expensive inland waterway project in U.S. history […]

By Becca Schimmel

Aug 30

Infrastructure

After Nearly Three Decades And $3 Billion, Olmsted Locks And Dam Open On Ohio

Becca Schimmel

May 30

Infrastructure

Wastewater Woes: For These Appalachian Towns, It’s Always Infrastructure Week

UPDATE Shortly after this story aired West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced that the state had secured federal funding needed to help Pine Grove finish a nearly $50,000 repair project for its failing sewer system. According to a Thursday, May 31, news release from the governor’s office, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, confirmed final […]

By Glynis Board

May 30

Infrastructure

Wastewater Woes: For These Appalachian Towns, It’s Always Infrastructure Week

Glynis Board

May 18

Infrastructure

Shine A Light: Regional Effort To Aid Puerto Rico Caught In Trump’s Solar Tariffs

Far from the ocean and Puerto Rico’s famous beaches, narrow roads wind into mountains not unlike the country roads of our home, West Virginia. After hours of driving we reach a rural community in the island’s center called Tetuan Tres. Like so many places in rural Appalachia, you don’t come here accidentally. We’ve come to […]

By Glynis Board and Rebecca Kiger

May 18

Infrastructure

Shine A Light: Regional Effort To Aid Puerto Rico Caught In Trump’s Solar Tariffs

Glynis Board and Rebecca Kiger

Apr 13

Infrastructure

Teachable Moment: Maps

By Alexandra Kanik

Apr 13

Infrastructure

Teachable Moment: Maps

Alexandra Kanik

Apr 4

Infrastructure

Eastern Kentucky Prison Moves Forward As Opponents Consider Challenge

The Bureau of Prisons has issued a record of decision signaling that it is moving ahead with plans to build a federal prison on the site of a former strip mine in the hills of Letcher County, Kentucky. But local opponents of the prison say they’re not giving up and are considering a legal challenge […]

By Benny Becker

Apr 4

Infrastructure

Eastern Kentucky Prison Moves Forward As Opponents Consider Challenge

Benny Becker

Feb 28

Infrastructure

Help On Tap For Troubled Water System In Coal Country

A water system in eastern Kentucky that was on the verge of collapse could soon get much needed improvements. Many Martin County, Kentucky, residents were without water for long periods this winter. The crisis drew attention amid a national discussion about infrastructure priorities, and put a spotlight on the sort of water woes that are […]

By Benny Becker

Feb 28

Infrastructure

Help On Tap For Troubled Water System In Coal Country

Benny Becker

Oct 13

Infrastructure

Trying Times For Transit: Rural Systems Face Flat Funding And Rising Demand

Thelma Daulton goes to the salon to get her hair done at the same time every Friday. She gets picked up at her house and greeted by one of many familiar faces from the Rural Transit Enterprises, Coordinated, or RTEC. Daulton is 95 years old and has been riding the public transit system in Somerset, […]

By Becca Schimmel

Oct 13

Infrastructure

Trying Times For Transit: Rural Systems Face Flat Funding And Rising Demand

Becca Schimmel