[CPEO-BIF] Dark Shade Brownfields project, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Dark Shade treatment project commended

BY KECIA BAL
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat (PA)
September 27, 2007

CENTRAL CITY - Looking over the orange ponds cluttered with debris, Jeff 
Barnett is happy.

"You can see what nasty stuff is here," said Barnett, project officer 
with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "That is what is not 
going into the stream anymore."

The nearly $250,000 project, the Reitz No. 1 AMD Passive Treatment 
Facility, takes 40 to 50 gallons a minute of acid mine discharge from a 
deep mine and works it through treatment ponds before depositing the 
filtered water into Laurel Run.

It flows first through compost and limestone to improve the acidity and 
then passes into settling ponds to lose iron and aluminum, AmeriCorps 
worker Kevin Wrabley said.

Now, the Dark Shade Brownfields project, which has accomplished 10 
projects in partnership with other organizations since its inception in 
1999, is inspecting two other sites - coal refuse piles in Shade Township.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_270233053.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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