Downstream Strategies helped the City of Thomas, West Virginia secure Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We then worked with partners to perform a dozen Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and four Phase II...
We designed an innovative stormwater feature at the Berkeley Springs Train Depot, which combined Chesapeake Bay best management practices with hügelkultur berms, a centuries-old agricultural method that facilitates the bioremediation process using mycelium.
In anticipation of growth in Ravenswood, West Virginia, we assessed the City’s 60-year-old zoning code to advance the growth goals of its recently updated comprehensive plan. The diagnosis report is an important first step to a streamlined and user-friendly code for...
We worked with the Northern Brownfields Assistance Center to help attract new business, lodging, and recreational opportunities to riverfront main streets in Grafton, West Virginia and other rural communities by redeveloping industrial legacy sites.
This report outlines innovative projects that would transform abandoned coal mine lands in West Virginia and nearby states into sites of sustainable community and economic development. As the technical advisor to the Reclaiming Appalachia Coalition, Downstream...
West Virginia’s residential electricity rates more than doubled between 2005 and 2022, outpacing the increases in every other state. This report explains why: (1) regulators and utilities doubling down on aging coal-fired power plants, (2) record-high cost recovery...
