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Reeds Run Coal Refuse Removal/Wetland Project To Be Dedicated Nov. 15
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The Aultman Watershed Association for Restoring the Environment, Stream Restoration, Inc. and many partners will dedicate the now completed Reeds Run Coal Refuse Pile Removal and Wetland project on November 15 in Armstrong Township, Indiana County near McIntyre, Pa.
This project is the fruition of nearly a decade of work to restore the headwaters of Reeds Run, a tributary to Aultmans Run. For the first time in over 50 years, fish have returned to a section of stream that had been devoid of life due to the impacts of AMD.
Through an innovative public-private partnership effort this project was expanded at no additional cost to the Commonwealth to not only construct a three-quarter acre aerobic wetland, but actually remove the source of the acid mine drainage, a small refuse pile.
Over 70,000 tons of coal refuse was removed, which was a major source of the second largest discharge in the entire 28-square mile Aultmans Run Watershed.
This project would not have been possible without the project partners including: AWARE, Central Blair Electric, U.S. Environmental Research Service, Robindale Energy, Harsco Minerals, local volunteers, Quality Aggregates Inc., DEP, Indiana County Conservation District, BioMost, Inc., G&C Lab, Indiana University of PA, Saddle Creek Farms Bedding, Indiana County Solid Waste Authority, and Stream Restoration Inc.
John Stefanko, DEP Deputy Secretary for the Office of Active and Abandoned Mine Operations, is planning to attend.
For more information and details on the event, send email to: sri@streamrestorationinc.org or call 724-776-0161.
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