Infrastructure Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Jan 27

Infrastructure

After Deadly Floods, West Virginia Created A Resiliency Office. It’s Barely Functioning.

The rain came hard and fast early on the morning of June 23, 2016. By 2 p.m., water was knee deep in Bill Bell’s appliance store on Main Street in Rainelle, a small town on the western edge of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Bell began elevating the washing machines and dishwashers, thinking that would be […]

By Brittany Patterson

Jan 27

Infrastructure

After Deadly Floods, West Virginia Created A Resiliency Office. It’s Barely Functioning.

By Brittany Patterson

Dec 19

Infrastructure

Rising Waters: Aging Levees, Climate Change And The Challenge To Hold Back The Ohio River

When 78-year-old Jim Casto looks at the towering floodwalls that line downtown Huntington, West Virginia, he sees a dark history of generations past. The longtime journalist and local historian is short in stature, yet tall in neighborhood tales. On Casto’s hand shines a solid gold ring, signifying his more than 40 years of reporting at […]

By Liam Niemeyer

Dec 19

Infrastructure

Rising Waters: Aging Levees, Climate Change And The Challenge To Hold Back The Ohio River

Liam Niemeyer

Nov 25

Infrastructure

Rural Water Loss Investigation Reveals Widespread Financial Challenges

Kentucky’s Public Service Commission released results of a months-long investigation into high rates of water loss in certain rural water districts. The findings point to systematic financial and managerial challenges facing rural districts, and solutions would likely require sweeping legislative change. The PSC launched its investigation in March after 11 rural districts, most of them […]

By Sydney Boles

Nov 25

Infrastructure

Rural Water Loss Investigation Reveals Widespread Financial Challenges

Sydney Boles

Nov 18

Infrastructure

Ohio Valley Residents Among Millions In America Lacking Access To Clean Water, Sanitation

Communities across the Ohio Valley are among an estimated 2 million Americans that do not have consistent access to clean drinking water and basic indoor plumbing, according to a report published Monday by two nonprofits, DigDeep and the US Water Alliance. The report titled, “Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States,” synthesized data […]

By Brittany Patterson

Nov 18

Infrastructure

Ohio Valley Residents Among Millions In America Lacking Access To Clean Water, Sanitation

Brittany Patterson

Oct 28

Infrastructure

Disastrous Disconnect: Coal, Climate And Catastrophe In Kentucky

This story is part of a series about the insufficient protections for vulnerable people as natural disasters worsen in a warming climate. The Center for Public Integrity and four partners – the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, High Country News, Ohio Valley ReSource and StateImpact Oklahoma – are contributing stories. REGINA, Ky. — Todd Bentley stepped onto his […]

By Rachel Leven and Zach Goldstein

Oct 28

Infrastructure

Disastrous Disconnect: Coal, Climate And Catastrophe In Kentucky

Rachel Leven and Zach Goldstein

Sep 30

Infrastructure

Water is Unaffordable for Nearly Half of Martin Countians, Report Finds

A new report finds nearly half the residents of Martin County, Kentucky, cannot afford water service. Local activists with the Martin County Concerned Citizens are ringing alarm bells about water affordability as the beleaguered county faces another likely water rate increase in the coming months. Since the ReSource first reported on its water crisis two […]

By Sydney Boles

Sep 30

Infrastructure

Water is Unaffordable for Nearly Half of Martin Countians, Report Finds

Sydney Boles

Sep 13

Infrastructure

SOAR At Six: Group’s Lofty Goals For Coal Country Meet Challenges On The Ground

In a conference hall in Pikeville, Kentucky, this September, Gov. Matt Bevin led an eager audience in a countdown. When the audience reached “One!,” a map on the screen behind the governor lit up with the promise of a high-tech future. After years of delay and scandal, major portions of the commonwealth’s “middle mile” of […]

By Sydney Boles

Sep 13

Infrastructure

SOAR At Six: Group’s Lofty Goals For Coal Country Meet Challenges On The Ground

Sydney Boles

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

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