Swamp Run #2 | Acid Mine Drainage Remediation

Location: Upshur county, WV

Date: 2019

A passive AMD treatment was designed, with Skelly and Loy, to improve the waters of Swam Run that flows into the Upper Buckhannon River. Techniques implemented in the design used iron oxidation, pH amendment, and metal removal by settling beds. Green Rivers obtained all the permits necessary for construction.

WV map with starred project location.
Hillside seep is fed through pipe.

SURVEY | AMD running downhill.

Wetland under forest canopy.

SURVEY | Swamp surveyed.

A surveyor along the bank of Swamp Run.

SURVEY | Surveying the AMD source.

SURVEY | Surveying the AMD source.