Stretches of rust orange, acidic water flow through hilly southeastern Ohio, but Rural Action has helped bring aquatic life ...

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The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Opinion EDITORIAL: How cleaning up acid mine drainage became profitable The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Fri, July 7, 2023 at 4:17 AM PDT 3 min read ...

More than 5,500 miles of streams in Pennsylvania are affected by acid mine drainage. People are used to seeing orange-colored streams because when rainwater runs through coal mines, it picks up iron.

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Cleaning the acid mine drainage in Murrysville’s Lyons Run is a personal endeavor for Matt Curry, president of Blairsville construction contractor Curry & Kepple. “I grew up on School Road South.

Acidic mine drainage haunts Western rivers Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024 11:53 AM Updated Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024 11:55 AM ...

The abandoned mine had been plugged by an earthen and rock dam known as a bulkhead, behind which orange, highly acidic drainage water accumulated. But after a federal Environmental Protection Agency ...

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Technical Terms Acid Mine Drainage: Water contaminated by mining activities that typically contains low pH, high sulphate, and elevated levels of heavy metals.

The effects of acid mine drainage on the decomposition of vascular plant material in a reservoir were compared at three sites: (1) a control site with no acid mine drainage (average pH = 6.3), (2) an ...