| | |  | | Home : Environmental and Sustainability : Acid Rock Drainage | | CATEGORIES: | | | | | LINKS: | | - Clean Streams Program
U.S. government-directed citizen/industry/government program working to eliminate acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines.
http://www.osmre.gov/acsihome.htm
(Added: Thu Jun 10 2004Hits: 37) - 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.
http://www.inap.com.au/
(Added: Thu Jun 10 2004Hits: 42) - 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.
http://manila_wetland.tripod.com/manila_amd_wetland.htm
(Added: Thu Jun 10 2004Hits: 45) - 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.
http://amd.osmre.gov/
(Added: Thu Jun 10 2004Hits: 56) - USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative
Detailed plans, pictures, data and reports of the USGS initiative to remediate the contamination left at abandoned mine sites at the Boulder River basin in southwestern Montana and the Upper Animas River basin in southwestern Colorado.
http://amli.usgs.gov/amli/
(Added: Thu Jun 10 2004Hits: 43) - USGS Mine Drainage Interest Group
Research on mining and the environment, including abandoned mine lands. Emphasis on hard rock (metals) mining.
http://mine-drainage.usgs.gov/
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