The Lower Paint Creek Association, Inc. is made up of local citizens forming a grass roots effort to improve the Paint Creek watershed to benefit all citizens. Our mission is to return the Paint Creek watershed area to a place of recreational beauty with clean water and a sparkling environment. Our goals are to improve the water quality of Paint Creek to such a degree that it will support a reproducing trout population, beautify the area, enhance pride and enjoyment of living in the watershed and increase more obvious and passive recreation.

  Paint Creek Volunteers collected over 12,000 Adopt-a-Highway bags, collected over 7,979 tons of solid waste, recycled 127.7 tons of solid waste, disposed of more than 5,500 car tires, hand cleaned over 14 miles of stream, built K-dams in tributaries and the stream, monitored Paint Creek and its tributaries, identified tributaries by means of a sign, hosted a "Stream Doctors Workshop" for IWLA, secured over $1,059,666 in grants and in-kind services, built a handicap accessible fishing pier at Ash Branch, built a 1/8 mile walking track for health and safety of walkers, built a picnic site at Ash Branch, placed limestone sand to correct acid mine drainage from Ten Mile Fork, placed boulders into the stream to prevent stream bank erosion, built a boat ramp and dock into the Kanawha River at Hansford, built school bus stop shelters for the safety of our children, taught the grass roots/watershed approach to environmental awareness at the schools, helped in the forming of new watersheds.

  Summer Youth Program For the summer of 2001, six youth were hired at the Paint Creek Park in Gallagher to assist in clean up, maintenance and other functions for a cleaner, more presentable park.

  EPA Computers Worked with the Lower Paint Creek Watershed Association to acquire 45 computers in the past two years from U.S. Environmental protection Agency in Philadelphia.  The computers were distributed to non-profit organizations in the UKV to assist with educational programs, operations, and other programs.

  Center for National Response Housing in Standard.