Volunteers pull 311 tires from Tug Fork River at Nolan

Volunteers with Friends of Tug Fork River and local helpers remove discarded tires from the Tug Fork during Thursday’s cleanup near Nolan. The group recovered 311 tires from the section. (Photo courtesy of Friends of Tug Fork River)

CITIZEN STAFF REPORT

NOLAN, W.Va. — The Friends of Tug Fork River led a major waste tire recovery project Thursday in short shoal on the upper end of Nolan, removing 311 tires from the Tug Fork River with help from local volunteers.

“This area had a high concentration of tires in a small section but was not accessible by our usual methods,” the group reported.

Tires wedged among driftwood and debris in a narrow stretch of the Tug Fork during the Friends of Tug Fork River’s latest recovery effort at Nolan. (Photo courtesy of Friends of Tug Fork River)

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s REAP program and Collins Services LLC assisted by setting up a winching system on the riverbank directly above the shoal, allowing workers to haul the tires straight up from the riverbed.

With this latest effort, Friends of Tug Fork’s seven-year total of recovered waste tires climbed to 18,623.

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