Watershed groups pay only the cost of shipping samples.
Other parameters might also be available. The battle isn't over, because the redesignation of the lower section will have to go through legislative rulemaking next session. And there is always the chance that Sarah Minear or others will try again for redesignation of the Upper Blackwater by going to the legislature. Last month, A.T. Massey Coal Co. started to build a dam on the Coal River. The company never obtained a permit.