Acid Mine Drainage--Hughes Bore Hole
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This is the Hughes Bore Hole disaster site. Underground coal mines which are pervasive under the surface collect water if not continously pumped. When the mines were abandoned in the 1920s the mines began to spill their acid waters to the surface and surrounding streams. In the 1950s they bored a hole with a pressure release mechanism that, in the 1970s, exploded. They can not stop the flow or properly buffer the acid waters before it gets to the river.
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...WOW! Reminds me of Yellowstone Park!!! Smells there too... The brown-'stuff'; Is this dissolved iron-oxide precipitate or bacteria colonies as the green-"shit" most likely is... Uck! Th' basterds should have retention/treatement facilities for this stuff.
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@dwetick This water flows into the Little Conemaugh, which then flows into the Conemaugh, which then flows into the Kiskimenetas, and finally into the Allegheny River.
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Well, you poor residents of the polluted Conemaugh valley will never have to worry about this reaction stopping...its forever.
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@dwetick the water is not boiling, its a spring
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Whats causing all the boiling activity?
Where does all this water go? Allegheny River? or Ohio? Theres lots of places in PA like this with no action by DER or anyone else to remediate the pollution.
It really a tradegy that coal companies just walked away with money in their pockets and not one cent given for any cleanup!
Son of a deceased black lung miner.
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Can you give directions to this place, I'd like to see it when I am in the area in 2 weeks
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Dissolved metals, maybe copper, arsenic, chromium, etc. The stuff will precipitate with increasing pH due to exposure to the environment buffering.
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We found the cache there and just love this video you posted. Thanks for the laugh.
locustbean1030 4 years ago
Thanks...at least this was compensation for not finding the cache.
Breakfastchief 4 years ago