Public Water Infrastructure

After careful, informed conversations with state and federal agencies and organizations, we believe the solution to this problem involves federal funding for public water infrastructure projects, organizing locals to ensure those projects are carried out, and providing residents with clean water until those projects are completed. 

We hope to see Leckie residents connected to the Anawalt PSD system and for that same system to receive the federal funding necessary for an upgrade. 

We hope to see the McDowell PSD operate and upgrade the Gary city water system or for the offer from coal companies to connect residents to a new source with the collaboration of the City of Gary to be renewed.

In the meantime, we hope to continue distributing water to residents in Gary, Anawalt, and Leckie. We believe it is necessary for a state of emergency to be declared for southern West Virginia coal counties for attention and resourcing for areas impacted by this regional water crisis. We will continue community water meetings in Leckie and intend to start holding community water meetings in Gary.