MORGANTOWN -- The Monongalia County Commission is stepping in to ensure stormwater improvements remain part of a development project in a historically flood-prone area. In a three-way agreement with the Morgantown Utility Board and RDR Properties LLC (Biaforas Inc.), the commission agreed ...
It’s hard to forget the images of cars stranded on a flooded Patteson Drive as people sat on vehicle roofs, rain pouring down and brackish water racing past. The historic summer 2021 storms caused the stormwater systems connected to Popenoe Run and Burroughs Run to be overwhelmed, ...
When John Lyons, of Strand Associates, tried to compare this past summer’s 100-year floods to football game day traffic, he missed the mark. “So your level of service Saturday for your road network is going to be horrible,” Lyons said as he delivered the initial results of a flood ...
Have to give credit to Coach Neal Brown In 1966, a certain assistant football coach at WVU took the time to stop by a small, central West Virginia town to speak to a group on a Sunday morning as he made his way back to Morgantown from a long-distance recruiting trip — no interstate ...
MORGANTOWN -- Between its allotment of American Rescue Plan funding and the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill signed by President Joe Biden on Monday, the city of Westover is looking to turn federal bucks into big changes for Holland Avenue. And it’s looking for a little help to make ...
MORGANTOWN — Anyone who regularly drives by Shorty Anderson’s Auto Service, on Stewart Street, is familiar with the destructive nature of water. It doesn’t care about roads, or yards, or automotive repair, for that matter. Historically, the area is rarely dry, resulting in summer ...