Recent reports have cleared doubts prevailing over the quality of water around Boone County community of Prenter. It was told that state regulators have not been able to find any concrete evidence suggesting that the water there is contaminated with mining-related activities.

It was told that the industry consulting firm Triad Engineering had gone to 100 homes there and picked water samples from 33 of them for testing. It is being claimed that the study done was collaborative enough to be considered consolidated. Moreover, there are expectations that this result would make the people living in the Prenter community satisfied as the water quality is very much within the permissible limits of Primary Drinking Water Standards.

The study done by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection had also made Hopkins Fork of the Big Coal River and tributaries of Hopkins Fork from Seth to Prenter, a part of their study.

It was told that though two domestic wells near a mine locality were found with some alarming concerns, there was not much to worry about. However, the team found that the wells had increased ratio of sulfate, iron, manganese and aluminum, but still they were found to be acceptable. The team is of the say that there are good chances the extended range of such levels may be due to mining being done near the wells, but there is no concrete evidence suggesting the same as of now.

“These wells probably derive their water from the same groundwater flow system occupied by the reclaimed mining operation”, the report said.

It was told that it was when Prenter residents expressed their concerns regarding the water that the issue caught the attention of concerned authorities. Now, the results of the study are declared and it is being expected that residents could take a sigh of relief from the lingering fear of bad quality of water.