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RECORD NUMBER: 192 OF 1885

Main Title Catawissa Creek mine drainage abatement project /
Author Miorin, A. F. ; Klingensmith, R. S. ; Knight, F. J. ; Heizer, R. E. ; Saliunas., J. R.
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Author Title of a Work
Miorin, A. F.
CORP Author Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter, Inc., Harrisburg, Pa.;Industrial Environmental Research Lab., Cincinnati, Ohio.;Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg.
Publisher Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Year Published 1977
Report Number EPA 600/7-77/124; EPA-14010-DSD
Stock Number PB-276 584
OCLC Number 28569648
Subjects Acid mine drainage--Pennsylvania ; Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Pennsylvania
Additional Subjects Channel improvements ; Flooding ; Coal mining ; Water pollution abatement ; Catawissa Creek ; Mine waters ; Water table ; Ground water ; Anthracite ; Feasibility ; Tables(Data) ; Water pressure ; Maps ; Geologic investigations ; Relocation ; Stream flow ; Construction ; Sealing ; Tunnels ; Cost analysis ; Pennsylvania ; Acid mine drainage ; Sheppton(Pennsylvania) ; Water quality data
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EJAD  EPA 600/7-77-124 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 07/15/2005
ELBD  EPA 600-7-77-124 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 01/31/1997
NTIS  PB-276 584 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation viii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of flooding underground coal mine workings in an isolated basin of coal, thereby restoring or partially restoring the groundwater table in the basin and reducing the production of acid mine drainage. Flooding the mined seams would prevent atmospheric oxygen contact with the acid-forming materials, thus breaking the chain of chemical reactions in the formation of acid mine drainage. To enable this determination, a relatively small discrete basin of coal in east central Pennsylvania at Sheppton was selected. As the first step, the watershed's streambed was relocated to prevent streamflow from passing into, and emitting from, the mined basin. Approximately 518 meters of streambed was reconstructed at a cost of $58.94 per meter, eliminating 0.253 cu m/s of water from entering the underground mine workings. Even though the mine sealing was deemed to have much merit, it was cancelled because of its high costs after plans and specifications for sealing the three tunnels were prepared and bids were taken for sealing one water-level tunnel. Bid cost for constructing the one seal was in excess of $600,000.
Notes
"November 1977." "EPA-600/7-77/124." Bound with: Report on laboratory tests on rock samples from Catawissa Creek tunnels project. PB-276 584. Project supported by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Environmental Resources under grant no. 14010 DSD. Microfiche.