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BIG RUN RESTORATION: A SUCCESS STORY
Terry W. Schmidt
• Presented at Pennsylvania Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference, June 26, 2015.
• Terry W. Schmidt, P.E., Vice President, Engineering, Skelly And Loy, Inc., 2601 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110.
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BIG RUN RESTORATION: A SUCCESS STORY
• Watershed Assessment and Characterization
• Blacklegs Creek Headwaters Project – Kolb Discharge
• Big Run Restoration – 4 Phase Project
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Pennsylvania Coal Fields
Source: USGS
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Indiana County, PA
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Young Township, Indiana Co.
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Kolb Site
• Abandoned underground mine discharge• High flow (approximately 1,000 gallons per
minute)• Selected as first major project in Blacklegs
Creek watershed• Demonstrated ability to manage grant and
complete successful project
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Blacklegs Creek Kolb Indiana County
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Kolb Site components
• Mine seal
• 18-inch fused, watertight pipe
• Gate valve to control water flow and allow for emergency discharge
• Pipe crossed a stream, shared a trench with a gas line, crossed a driveway, and crossed a railroad prior to entering the treatment site
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Riser And Screen AssemblyAt The Kolb Discharge
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Big Run Flow Data 2000
• Big Run #2 – 4,700 GPM
• Big Run #3 – 350 GPM
• Big Run #7 – 1,200 GPM
• Big Run #8 – 1,400 GPM
• Main Discharges - > 1/3 of flow
• Main Stem – 20,000 GPM
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Big Run & Blacklegs Creek
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Phase I – Big Run #2
• 2001 Growing Greener Grant
• Design 2001/2002
• Construction 2002/2003
• Final Report 2004
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Phase I – Big Run #2
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Phase I - Big Run #2 2003
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Phase I - Big Run #2 2003
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Phase I - Big Run #2 2003
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Phase I - Big Run #2 2003
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Phase I – Big Run #2 Flow Distribution/Aeration
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Phase I – Big Run #2
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Phase I – Big Run #2
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Phase I – Big Run #2 O&M
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Phase I – Big Run #2
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Phase I – Big Run #2
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Phase II – Big Run #7
• Big Run #7 2003 Growing Greener Grant
• Grant for #7 Design and #8 Investigation
• Design 2003/2004
• Construction 2004/2005
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Phase II – Big Run #7 2004
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Phase II – Big Run #7 2004
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Phase II – Big Run #7
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Phase 2 – Big Run #7Average Raw AMD:Flow = 800 gpmFe = 1 mg/LAl = 15 mg/LHot Acidity = 150 mg/L
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Phase II – Big Run #7
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Phase II – Big Run #7
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Phase II – Big Run #7
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Phase II – Big Run #7
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Phase II – Big Run #7 & #8
• Final Report 2007
• Phase II Big Run #7 Constructed
• Phase III Big Run #8 Concept Design
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Big Run #8 and Big Run #3
• 2004 Initial discussions - Norfolk Southern
• 2006 Meeting with Norfolk Southern
• Wetland and Stream Mitigation Needed
• $1,000,000 + Committed by NS
• 2008 Work commenced on #8 and #3
• 2009 Supplemental GG Grant Requested
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Phase III - Big Run #8
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Phase III – Big Run #8 Drainage Tunnel
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Phase III – Big Run #8 Piping and Emergency Overflow
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Phase III – Big Run #8 Piping and Emergency Overflow
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Phase III – Big Run #8 Piping and Emergency Overflow
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Phase III – Big Run #8
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Phase III – Big Run #8
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Phase III – Big Run #8 Valve
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Phase III – Big Run #8 (#7A)
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Phase III – Big Run #8
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Phase III – Big Run #8
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Phase III – Big Run #8
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Phase III – Big Run #8
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Phase IV - Big Run #3
• Big Run #3 discharge occurred and adverse property
• 4 acres of treatment area preserved for potential treatment of Big Run #3
• Phase IV – Big Run #3– Supplemental treatment of Phase II & III– Provides excess alkalinity for Big Run #3– Big Run #3 could be re-directed in future
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Phase IV - Big Run #3
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Phase IV - Big Run #3
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Phase IV - Big Run #3
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Phase IV - Big Run #3
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Phase IV - Big Run #3
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2014/2015
• $500,000 Act 13 Grant O&M
• Growing Greener Kolb Wetland Expansion
• Fish in Lower Blacklegs Creek
• Bugs in Lower Big Run
• Norfolk Southern received mitigation
• Work progressing on Whiskey Run
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Partners
• Saltsburg Sportsman’s Club
• Norfolk Southern
• Consol Energy
• EASI – water sampling
• PA DEP
• Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
• Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team
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Partners
• WPCAMR
• Growing Greener
• EPA 319
• OSM Clean Streams Initiative
• Foundation for PA Watersheds
• Blackleggs Creek Watershed Association
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Trout Nursery Man of the Year
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Watershed Hero
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Mayfly Award Recipient
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Always on the Job
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