MORGANTOWN – Lower Deckers Creek appears to be coming back to life. And it appears to be because the Richard Mine acid mine drainage treatment plant is pouring in clean water each day instead of tons of AMD. A reader told The Dominion Post this week that he'd seen some small fish in the ...
The new acid mine drainage treatment plant, which will filter and neutralize the tainted water from Richard Mine before it flows into Deckers Creek, came online last week to much fanfare. The facility filters the water for containments and neutralizes the acidity with a lime slurry before ...
MORGANTOWN – Federal officials came to the Richard Mine acid mine drainage treatment plant on Monday to announce the second round of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding for abandoned mine land reclamation in West Virginia. Last year, the state received $140 million, said Steve ...
MORGANTOWN – The new Richard Mine acid mine drainage treatment plant began operation last week, and on Monday, officials from the U.S. Department of Interior and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement toured the site in advance of a special DOI announcement (see companion ...
MORGANTOWN — Work on the Richard Mine acid mine drainage treatment plant continues to forge ahead, with a new addition enabled by research at WVU. Right now, the most prominent feature for passers-by on W.Va. 7 is the lime storage silo that towers above the site. A view of the metal ...
MORGANTOWN — Northeast Natural Energy has donated $10,000 to Friends of Deckers Creek. FODC will use the funds to purchase stream water quality monitoring equipment that will record water quality data used to gauge the health of Deckers Creek. “FODC wants to thank Northeast Natural ...