Operations and Maintenance plans are crucial to the success of passive acid mine drainage treatment systems. O&M plans encourage long-term sustainable AMD treatment, helping grassroots watershed organizations maximize the life of their passive treatment systems.

Unfortunately, many of Pennsylvania's 250-plus passive AMD treatment systems - especially the older ones - do not have O&M plans.

Stream Restoration Inc. has partnered with the Department of Environmental Protection and Biomost Inc. to provide Pennsylvania watershed organizations with free technical assistance in developing O&M plans.

Their interdisciplinary team can visit your watershed and create an operations and maintenance plan for passive treatment systems that are currently without one. But the program ends at the end of March, so send in an O&M Plan Request Form soon!

For more information about treatment system operations and maintenance:

· Free Technical Assistance Program

· Full O&M Resources from the 2006 PA Conference on AMR

· O&M Summary from AMRClearinghouse.org

2/2/2007