By Mark Taylor, The Roanoke Times, Va. Jul. 27--GRUNDY -- Diehard angler Patrick Baker is always on the lookout for new water.

CONSOL Energy is convinced it needs to pump untreated, high- chloride mine wastewater -- at a rate of thousands of gallons a minute -- into the Levisa Fork river to keep its mining operations in Buchanan County afloat.

By The Roanoke Times, Va. Apr. 10--CONSOL Energy is convinced it needs to pump untreated, high-chloride mine wastewater -- at a rate of thousands of gallons a minute -- into the Levisa Fork river to keep its mining operations in Buchanan County afloat.

By SUE LINDSEY CONSOL Energy will have equipment ready next week to pump water with high chloride content from a mine into a Southwest Virginia river, home to an endangered fish species.

By GREG EDWARDS A state Senate committee rejected a request by Buchanan County residents to limit the dumping of salty mine water into a tributary of the Ohio River. Consolidation Coal Co. has received a state permit to dump salty water from its Buchanan No.