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- Natural Wetland Treats Acid Mine Drainage - Describes a wetland pilot project by the Heizer-Manila Watershed Association in West Virginia. They used a natural wetland to help ameliorate acid mine drainage.
- OSM's Acid Mine Drainage Page - US government resource on AMD abatement. Includes articles, photos, links, and AMDTreat, a freeware application for estimating costs to treat acid mine drainage.
- Mine Environment Neutral Drainage (MEND 2000) - Canada's acidic drainage research and technology transfer program.
- Acid Mine Drainage - University of Waterloo research into groundwater geochemistry and remediation of acid mine wastes.
- International Network for Acid Prevention (INAP) - Industry based initiative that aims to globally coordinate research and development into the management of sulphide mine wastes. Site has information on acid mine drainage research projects and links to related sites.
- Clean Streams Program - U.S. government-directed citizen/industry/government program working to eliminate acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines.
- Acid Mine Drainage - Information about research and outline of different treatment technologies and their effectiveness. From West Virginia University.
- Hands-on Experiments to Test for Acid Mine Drainage - Teaches kids about acid mine drainage and other environmental topics through a series of hands-on experiments.
- Mineral Policy Center - Environmental impacts of mining (acid mine drainage, and cyanide spills), reform of U.S. 1872 mining law. Focus on hard rock mining in the United States.
- Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance - Citizens' group dedicated to restoring the Shamokin Creek Watershed, which was severely degraded by past anthracite coal mining. Includes information on acid mine drainage and its treatment, Pennsylvania coal, organization history and project progress, and related topics.
Wikipedia Articles
- Acid mine drainage - Acid mine drainage (AMD), or acid rock drainage (ARD), refers to the outflow of acidic water from (usually) abandoned metal mines or coal mines. However, other areas where the earth has been disturbed (e.
- Shamokin Creek - The Shamokin Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River, which drains most of southeastern Northumberland County, Pennsylvania and part of southwestern Columbia County. The creek receives drainage from many now defunct collieries and the acid mine drainage results in much of the water falling under the United States Environmental Protection Agency's "water quality limited waters" designation.