Acid Mine Drainage

[thelastryder]

excellent video...great insight on a interesting and thought-provoking topic in environmental chemistry. Thanks for the upload :)

[Tancrid100]

Listen to the narrorator sniffling. Can this poison become airborne and affect ones respiratory health?

[StanierBlack5LMS]

Cool I need to move to an area like this it should be bug free ! Thank God for King Coal a American fuel that provided American Jobs. Shame I was born to late after we killed all our industry & prosperity. Thanks to the silent and boomer generations we are a has been nation.

[MudRunnerz]

no wonder they let us ride there its already fucked up

[mx2502011]

i crossed that river on my 450:)

[rubin308]

Awsome video man, thanks good info for my project.

[QueenXanthia]

Very very interesting. I always wondered what they called that stuff.

[dwetick]

Take a trip thru northern Pennsylvania to see the forever residue of ancient coal mines. I used to go trout fishing in the un-spoiled waters, but now they are far and few between and way too crowded for my tastes.

[MrBudwv]

I remember back in the 80's I read an artical in popular science where they was talking about using rods of zinc 7 copper to create a giant battery. it did not make any useful electricty but it did rais the Ph of these sludge ponds. The worst part about these ponds is when they wear out & flood the folks down stream. nobdy's responable. If your lucky FEMA will give a trailer to live in for a little while & your land is runined. I still think we need the mines but this kind of mess is unnessary.

[roguepathfinder]

Thanks for this vid it was a real wake up. I never knew was out there. Everywhere I've been. All that was needed was to boil and you where good to go. Other than that orange color is there any way to tell? Also any way to make it drinkable? Adding baking soda maybe.

[22tankr]

@roguepathfinder baking soda will help neutralize the acidity, but there are far worse things to worry about with that water. Heavy metals such as mercury, lead. Toxins such as arsenic are at high concentrations in this type of water. Iron, sulpher etc.... I would drink it nor would I allow my worst enemy to do so.

[dvsdarrel]

Good video Pat. Was that at Wayne national if it was the only thing we use that water for is putting out campfire or rinsing off atv.

[pk066392]

Yea it was near the door run atv trailhead. near where the bypass meets 33 north of nelsonville. check it out sometime

[NickyTheHeel]

Were these mines dug on public or private land?

[pk066392]

Well when this one was dug it was probably owned by a coal company. Then purchased by the national forest service. But there are situations where companies lease the mineral rights to public areas

[TheRedHawk123]

That is horrible, glad to hear that there are laws against that now.

5/5

[pk066392]

too little too late in this case

[TheEPCpwn]

@pk066392 yep yall r right!!!

[b1gje55e]

Absolutely horrible to see a once pristine piece of woodland be turned into a "festering wound on the earth".

[pk066392]

its all over the place here, it just makes me sick sometimes

[bushcraftbartons]

very educationnal...thanks...

[iawoodsman]

Great info, I grew up in Northwest OH. We didn't have any thing like that.

[pk066392]

Yea its not much of a problem where i live in northeast ohio, but where i go to school in southeast ohio its a big issue. Where in ohio did you grow up

[iawoodsman]

In Defiance south of Toledo

[chickenz666]

Would an osmosis style of water filter like the X-pack remove the heavy metals?

[pk066392]

Well that question seems a litl out of my knowledge zone, my first guess would be no, but maybe it would im not sure, i will try to find out. Good question

[medicjimr]

Are you majoring in some sort of science program ? you seem well versed on the enviroment good info.

[pk066392]

Thanks for noticing bro, i am majoing in wildlife management at hocking college as well as a lot of other environmental sciences, thanks for the comment and the support