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Reeds Run Restoration Project Dedication A Success
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Over 30 volunteers and professionals braved a steady, cold rain, to dedicate the Reeds Run Restoration Project in Armstrong Township, Indiana County on November 15. The dedication included comments of encouragement and appreciation from Rod Ruddock, Indiana County Commissioner; John Stefanko, Deputy Secretary, DEP Office of Active and Abandoned Mine Operations; Jonathan Longwill for Rep. Dave Reed; Glen Carnahan and Rodger George, Armstrong Twp. Supervisors and many others.
Brian Okey, (photo) Aultman Watershed Association for Restoring the Environment (AWARE) explained the restoration effort and project partners Jim Panaro, Robindale Energy Services; Bill Abatte, Harsco Minerals; Tom Roberts, Seward Generating Station; John Foreman, PG, Central Blair Electric provided a brief overview of their roles in making this public-private partnership effort successful.
Groups were also taken on a walking tour of the site to see first-hand the improvements to Reeds Run.
The Reeds Run AMD Remediation Project is the fruition of nearly a decade of work to restore the headwaters of Reeds Run, a tributary to Aultmans Run. A small Growing Greener grant was awarded in 2004 to Stream Restoration Inc. to assess one of the largest sources of AMD in the watershed and develop a design to treat the discharge. Partial funding was also received from the County Environmental Initiative Program in 2007 to permit and construct a portion of a passive treatment system.
Through an innovative public-private partnership effort this project was expanded at no additional cost to the Commonwealth to not only construct a 3/4-acre aerobic wetland, but actually remove a major source of the AMD, a small refuse pile.
After more than 50 years, fish have returned to a section of stream that had been devoid of life due to the impacts of AMD. For more information about the site, please visit Datashed at or contact Shaun Busler at Stream Restoration Inc.
This “success story” would not have been possible without project partners: AWARE, Central Blair Electric, U.S. Environmental Research Service, Robindale Energy, Harsco Minerals, Saddle Creek Farms Bedding, Quality Aggregates Inc., Indiana County Conservation District, BioMost, Inc., Seward Generating Station, Indiana University of PA, the Department of Environmental Protection, G&C Lab, Indiana County Solid Waste Authority, Stream Restoration Inc., and the Western Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation.
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