the U.S News and a survey done in 1994 by the state Department of Water Resources found that all but 24 percent of West Virginia’s streams and rivers are polluted. In rivers such as Little Coal sediment from mountaintop removal operations has filled and polluted the river to the point that water only flows inches deep on top of several feet of gelatinous brown muck. The other environmental effects Mountaintop removal has on the environment, It loosens the sediment on top of the mountain with the same mixture of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil that could be used to build a bomb and blow up the empire State building, mining explosions are 10 to 100 times stronger. The explosions loosen up the rocks and big machines called draglines remove the broken rock and pile it into dump trucks. The dump trucks then take the rubble and dump what is once a mountain into the surrounding valley—thus valley fills. Valley fills cover streams that cause serious flooding, acid mine drainage, then takes all the other substances and turns streams orange making water undrinkable for surrounding communities.Table AWEST VIRGINIA Number Sales or Output Jobs/1000 Estabs/100K of Receipts Number per population population Sector Estabs ($mil) of Jobs capita # %ofUS # %ofUSMining 1,163 6,855 33,000 3,790 18 729 64 533Construction 3,595 1,998 24,982 1,105 14 75 199 88Manufacturing 1,783 13,399 78,500 7,407 43 65 99 68Transportation 1,350 955 13,037 528 7 58 75 103Communications 383 1,095 7,688 605 4 84 21 138Utilities 269 2,164 9,828 1,196 5 151 15 189Wholesale 2,427 7,843 24,472 4,336 14 58 134 69R...
