From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 1 Oct 2007 18:32:01 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Dark Shade Brownfields project, Pennsylvania |
Dark Shade treatment project commended BY KECIA BAL Johnstown Tribune-Democrat (PA) September 27, 2007CENTRAL 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 -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
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