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The Bucknell University Environmental Center 2nd Annual Susquehanna River Initiative Symposium Pennsylvania Abandoned Mine Drainage Remediation: Seeking Common Ground Along the Susquehanna
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Goals
- Provide overview of mine drainage remediation efforts in Eastern PA
- Provide scientific and technical background on mine drainage and potential treatment methods
- Provide landowner and watershed group perspectives on mine reclamation efforts
- Facilitate communication among landowners, citizen groups, scientific community, regulatory and funding agency personnel
Symposium Rationale:
Anthracite coal mining has a legacy that is both proud and troubling. Anthracite fueled economic growth in this country, and it still provides employment in the Eastern Pennsylvania region. Historical mining without environmental regulation also left a scarred landscape and polluted water, both of which are slowly being healed. This symposium aims to bring together citizens whose goals include continuing production of anthracite coal, environmental protection, and healing the land from past scars. The symposium is particularly timely because of the recent release of AML funding by the federal government. It is designed to provide a forum for meaningful communication of concerns and generation of ideas from all stakeholders, with the overall goals of finding common ground and moving forward as partners.
Potential Common Interests among stakeholders:
- Remining as a means to eliminate abandoned mine drainage
- Waste rock bank removal
- Economic development in the Anthracite Region
- Collection of iron oxide as a resource
- Treated water as a resource
- New AMD treatment methods
Co-sponsors:
Bucknell University Environmental Center
Henry Luce Foundation
Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies
Geisinger Center for Health Research
Eastern
Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR)