---- http://www.webnewswire.com/node/645230 (Excerpt) ...an agreement that will create a $19.9 million trust fund to finance continual treatment of polluted mine pool discharges in Cambria, Somerset and Butler counties of Pennsylvania.
---- Hughes bore hole, Portage Township, Pennsylvania - Estimated flow is 800 to 3,500 gallons per minute with 8,000 pounds of dissolved metals per day, polluting the Little Conemaugh River since the 1970s.
An AMD discharge shooting up about 13 feet in the area of the Bast Colliery in Big Mine Run, just outside of Ashland, PA &feature=fvw
A fishpond polluted by drainage from a coal mine in Harlan, KY
Helping to clean up soils contaminated by acidic mine drainage
When mined the Sewannee Coal Seam, in Walden's Ridge, TN releases acid mine drainage
--- In constrast, it has recently been noted that the acidified streams kill the fecal and other bacteria from the raw sewage coming from rural areas where there are but few septic treatment systems.
"The current sewer system for the village is our creek," said village Councilwoman Rebecca Johnson. "That's where my sewage goes, to the creek. Some (village households) do have septic systems; I would say most do not.
The Hocking County village of about 450 people, many of them elderly and poor, has no public sewer system, and residents say it can't afford one.
The Monday Creek watershed covers 116 square miles in Athens, Hocking and Perry Counties. For watershed residents, the negative impacts left from mining are an everyday reality.
--- Wayne National Forest: Year in Review 2006 http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5068940.pdf (Excerpt) ...to install the doser, which addsmeasured amounts of calcium carbonate to reverse high acid levels.The Essex Coal Mine has shafts and underground rooms covering approxi-mately 2,500 acres underground and discharges AMD at an average rate of700 gallons per minute into Snow Fork. Snow Fork (pictured at right beforeand after treatment) was previously a "dead" stream with no aquatic life andpH levels of 4.5-5.1. ... The doser cost $324,500, with the partners contributing $315,500. Thedoser is designed to treat water for a distance of about six miles downstream. --- Summary of Monday Creek Sub-Basin Ecosystem Restoration Project http://www.usace.army.mil/CECW/CWRB/Documents/hrb/HRB_MondayCreek_Report_Summ... ---- Solute Transport at Low Flow in an Acid Stream in Appalachian Ohio Abstract http://www.springerlink.com/content/x7q136682q71442g/ Complete paper: http://www.springerlink.com/content/x7q136682q71442g/fulltext.pdf (27 pages)
