Granville Getting Rec Area
Morgantown Dominion Post
23 September 2018
By Alayna Fuller For The Dominion Post
Granville is creating a recreational area by Monongahela River and
it will benefit the entire community. It will include a boat slip
and boat docks, where the community will be welcome to dock boats
and fish by the riverside along W.Va. 100.
“It’s something in the community that people have wanted for a
while,” said Granville Town Mayor Patricia Lewis. “Eventually we
want to put restrooms down there with a few picnic tables where if
people didn’t necessarily even have a boat, they would be able to
go down along the river and fish.”
"In Fort Martin, there’s accessible places for people to dock
their boats, but in the Granville and Westover area, there’s no
available space for boat docking. There’s nothing on this side of
the river where people can put boats to get out on the river for
recreation or fishing," said Lewis.
CONSOL Energy owns the property where Granville plans to put the
recreational area, but town officials are working on obtaining
that land. CONSOL has agreed to sell Granville the property, but
there must be a reappraisal. “We hope to get the appraisal updated
because it’s over six months old,” said Granville Town attorney,
Michael Solomon. “We’d also have to get a survey done with the
loading facilities. “After those two things are done, I will
petition with a certain court and pay into the court the amount of
our appraisal and we would get immediate entry.”
CONSOL can challenge the appraisal amount, and it would go through
the court system. It would first go to court commissioners to
determine what the fair market value is, said Solomon. Granville
has ensured that CONSOL will get a fair market value for the
property. “If CONSOL’s not satisfied with what the commissioners
come up with, they will also appeal it to a survey court and then
it would be up for a jury,” said Solomon.
It’s hoped work on the facility will begin next spring and be
usable by summer.