MOUNT STORM SYNDROME — Drummond Poole

DRUMMOND POOLE WORK ABOUT

Wolf’s Head. “Stony River Dam, Dobbin, W.Va.” 1888.

E.L. Judy. “Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, Marshall County, W. Va.” 1910.

C.W. Hardesty. “Deforestation at Dobbin, Grant County, W.Va.” 1910.

C.W. Hardesty. “Lumber Mill at Dobbin, Grant County, W.Va.” 1910.

United States Geologic Survey. “The Potomac and Roaring Creek Coal Fields in West Virginia.” 1893.

R.B. Wooters. “Screening Coal, Thomas, W.Va.” 1936.

Paul Souders. “Young boy swimming in Mount Storm Lake heated by effluent from Mount Storm Power Station...” 2009.

Edward Utz. “Stony River Dam, Mt Storm, W.Va.” 1966.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. “Mount Storm, West Virginia... Air Pollution Abatement Activity” 1971.

Mount Storm Lake Surface Temperature, 2022 (via LakeMonster.com)

Labor Region — Minutes to Mount Storm Power Station

Jason LLC. “Coal Ash at Mount Storm Power Station” 2024.

MOUNT STORM SYNDROME

Fall 2024
Thesis Research
Power // Energy: Mapping the Thickened Ground of Labor
Rosalea Monacella

Behind flanks of wind turbines, the Mount Storm Power Station churns itself into oblivion. The archives above form the contextual ground for my design thesis — to be completed in Spring 2025. The research investigates the industrial condition of Mount Storm through the landscape symptoms produced by over a century of single-resource extraction — first of timber, then of coal. These symptoms — thermal pollution, acid mine drainage, stunted evergreens and fish — have been excused by its hidden position high in the Appalachians, yet the site is linked to our nation’s capital via the Potomac River and electric grid. The design work will bring Mount Storm’s perverse ecologies to light.