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Postcast 78 – July 2, 2021

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Morgantown area well ahead of normal rainfall numbers for June

MORGANTOWN -- National Weather Center Meteorologist Lee Hendricks said between 1.5 and 4 inches of rain fell in Monongalia County Monday evening, depending on the location. That included 2 inches at the Morgantown Lock and Dam and 2.31 inches at the Morgantown Municipal Airport, which ...

MUB installs river monitoring pontoon

Newsroom@DominionPost.com  As part of its mission of treating and distributing clean water to the Morgantown area, Morgantown Utility Board  installed a floating monitoring station along the Monongahela River. About two miles upstream of the water treatment plant main intake, the ...

Reseachers want to save salamanders

WVU Today  Two of West Virginia’s mountain-loving salamander species are wrestling for resources and space as climate change threatens their habitats.  Researchers with the West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design have slithered in ...

Boating season is here: How to be safe

Alcohol use is the most-known contributing factor to fatal boating accidents, being involved in 23% of boating deaths in 2019, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The BAC limit for operating a boat is .08, the same as for driving a car, Lt. Brad McDougal of the West Virginia Division of ...

Crews investigate possible drowning at Cheat Lake

Emergency response crews were investigating a possible drowning Tuesday evening at Cheat Lake. According to MECCA 911 radio dispatch traffic, a person was attempting to swim to the shore at the Morgan Run backwater area of the lake when he went under – and didn’t resurface. He ...