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Fast
Facts
Building off of our first round success in the Growing
Greener Program, we decided to apply in round 2 for the first phase
of one of our watersheds largest polluters. The money was granted and the
Big Run #2 was completed in the fall of 2003.
Funding Source: Pennsylvania
Growing Greener Program
Funding Amount: $202,236
Project Manager: Art Grguric
Project Consultant: Skelly
and Loy, Inc.
Consultant Project Manager: Terry
Schmidt
DEP Project Advisor: Jeff Fliss
Project Completed: Winter 2003
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Project Background
Big Run, a
major tributary to Blacklegs Creek, is one of the biggest polluters in the
watershed. In fact, if it were not for the excessive impacts from
abandoned mine
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drainage to Big Run, we would be able
to stock trout the entire stretch of Blacklegs Creek. The importance of
remediating the problems in Big Run is obvious. The Big Run #2 discharge
represented the first major impact to Big Run, even though a few smaller
discharges were located upstream. According to data taken from 1999 to summer
2003, the average flow of the discharge is
1,250 gallons per minute. The average acidity is 89 mg/l and the pH is
between 5.0 and 5.3. The discharge also has a |
| small amount of metals present with aluminum at
3.1 mg/l and iron at 0.4 mg/l. The treatment system design consists
mainly of a large limestone treatment pond and a polishing wetland. Also,
due to the small aluminum content of the water, a flushing |
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Current Events
Big
Run Phase II is well underway. The final treatment system will
remediate AMD from Big Run #7 and pave the way to remediating #8 at a
later date. Discussions and negotiations for securing funding for
Big Run Phase III and IV are also underway. The total of Phases III
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Collecting the Water
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Slide Show
Updated 8-31-02
Slides Flow in Chronological Order
Documentation
Original
Funding Proposal (pdf)
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