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Kanawha River

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Kanawha River

River, West Virginia, U.S. Formed by the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers, it flows northwest for 97 mi (156 km), entering the Ohio River at Point Pleasant. It has dams and locks and is navigable to Kanawha Falls, located 30 mi (48 km) above Charleston, W.Va. The Kanawha River valley has extensive deposits of salt brines and natural gas and oil wells.



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Denny on the Kanawha River and a visit to the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine.
West Virginia's Kanawha River tumbles through one of the most highly industrialized valleys in the United States.
Much of the coal is located along tributaries to the Ohio River system, the Big Sandy, and Kanawha rivers, and a lot of it goes by barge to the power plants.
 
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