McDowell County sees Mountaineer Gas tariff, Mid-Vol permit notices, PSD boil advisories

Mountaineer Gas Company filed Tariff Form No. 8-C (Tariff Rule No. 30-C) with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia seeking decreased rates, tolls and charges for furnishing natural gas service to approximately 220,000 customers, a filing that names McDowell among the affected counties. The filing text lists counties including Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Mineral, Mingo, Monongalia, Monroe, Nicholas, Ohio, Pendleton, Preston, Putnam, Raleigh, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Summers, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Wetzel and Wirt, with the notice presented under the heading "PUBLIC NOTICE OF CHANGE IN RATES UPON APPLICTION." The excerpted tariff notice is truncated after Wirt and does not include an effective date, docket number or customer-class detail in the published text.

Mid-Vol Coal Sales submitted multiple Department of Environmental Protection filings that name McDowell County locations. For Permit Number S400709 the company at 640 Clover Dew Dairy Rd, Princeton, WV 24739 applied for a Phase 3 Release listing Increment Number 1 as 128.54 acres, Increment Number 2 as 13.6 acres, Increment Number 3 as 21.8 acres and Increment Number 4 as 31.29 acres. The S400709 notice locates the permit in ADKIN District of McDowell County, 1.4 Miles Northeast of ANAWALT on Unnamed Tributaries of Dry Branch, Unnamed Tributaries of Indian Grave Branch of Little Creek, and Unnamed Tributaries of Mill Branch all of Tug Fork of Tug Fork River.

A separate Mid-Vol Coal Sales filing appears as a renewal request for Article 3 Permit Number U401109 to operate an underground coal mine in the Pocahontas No. 6 seam. That notice states the company has a permit on file for surface mining of approximately 32.75 acres and that the operation discharges into Unnamed Tributaries of Coalbank Branch of Elkhorn Creek of Tug Fork River. The U401109 location is described as 1.0 miles Southeast of Eckman in Browns Creek District of McDowell County with coordinates given as Longitude 81deg. 26' 54" Latitude 37deg. 24' 1" and a parenthetical note that coordinates are from a USGS topographic map.

The McDowell County Public Service District site lists an array of boil-water advisories and corrective-action notices for local systems spanning 2024 and 2025. Items indexed on the PSD site include "Boil Water Advisory Maybeury December 2025," "Boil Water Advisory Coalwood Corrective Action- Greenbrier October 2025," "Corrective Action- Coalwood October 2025," "Notice of Public Meeting for Source Plans," "Boil Water Advisory Anawalt," "Boil Water Advisory Bartley," "Boil Water Advisory Caretta and Buchanan," "Lift of Boil Water Advisory- Anawalt May 2025," "Kimball May 2025," "Vivian/Tidewater May 2025," "Boil Water Advisory Maybeury March 2025," "Lift of Boil Water Advisory- Bartley March 2025," "Lift of Boil Water Advisory for 9 Systems- March 2025," and "Feb 2025 Boil Water Notices Post-Flood in McDowell County," plus community CCR2025 listings for Ashland, Bartley, Coalwood, Eckman, Greenbrier, Kimball, Maybeury, Tidewater and others. The PSD entries carry month-and-year stamps across 2024 and 2025 as presented on the district site.

The compiled legal-text feed also reproduces archival property and enforcement fragments dated in 2016. Those verbatim excerpts include a Buildings Commission hearing notice scheduled "at noon on the 23rd day of August, 2016" in the Directors Room, Municipal Complex, 200 Rogers Street in Bluefield, and a foreclosure auction "on August 31, 2016 at 1:30 PM" at the front door of the Mercer County Courthouse in Princeton for a parcel described as Lot 6, Section 879 in Bluefield. Named addresses in the archival text include Kevin Johnson, 1813 Dearborn Street, Bluefield, West Virginia 24701, and "333 Melcher Street, Map 10, Parcel 97, Section 366, Lot 19 & 20, Bluefield, West Virginia 24701; Willis Wilson, 529 No. Spring Street, Bluefield, West Virginia 24701."

The filings and notices cited here contain the specific permit numbers S400709 and U401109, the tariff header Tariff Form No. 8-C (Tariff Rule No. 30-C), the Mid-Vol company address at 640 Clover Dew Dairy Rd, Princeton, WV 24739, the DEP address 1159 Nick Rahall Greenway, Fayetteville, WV 25840, and the PSD advisory labels and dates as listed. Full tariff docket records at the Public Service Commission, DEP e-permitting files for S400709 and U401109, and the McDowell PSD notice pages hold the complete texts, maps, comment periods and any hearing schedules for residents in Anawalt, Eckman, Coalwood, Maybeury, Bartley, Kimball and surrounding communities.