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ing economic stability needed in rural communities.
The ACCWT, headquartered in Beckley, W.Va., serves an eight-state area comprising Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Its goals include building local capacity to fix problems, monitoring water quality, enhancing communityjiut reach and education, developing local communities, and developing the professional skills of the VISTA Volunteers who serve, with the organization.
Dewey Houck, a West Virginian who began a local watershed association as a result of Comp's efforts has said. “One thing people don’t really focus on is the young people that go through his program. These young people are gaining a 1 letter understanding of not just what it takes to improve the environment, but to lx1 a community leader.”
The WHWT was founded at the request of the Colorado Division of Reclamation. Mining and Safety, to emulate the successes of the ACCWT.
Both teams are supported by an innovative partnership between AmeriCorps VISTA and the Office of Surface Mining. The ACCWT began in 2002 as an OSMATSTA
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