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<div><p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Watersheds are interconnected systems of rivers and streams that drain into the same body of water. Water from a small creek can travel dozens of miles and drain into a larger river or lake. As a result, watersheds collect runoff and pollution from many human activities. Water is vital for life on earth, and yet the EPA estimates that that <a href="https://www.epa.gov/hwp/basic-information-and-answers-frequent-questions#whathealthy" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">55% of the nation's flowing waters are in poor biological condition</a>. Fortunately, there are many groups collaborating to combat the issue of declining water quality.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Community members have practical knowledge of what their local environment needs and are best positioned to provide solutions. This year on World Water Day, we bring attention to the amazing work being done on the ground by local citizens through WCAP by highlighting three projects that were completed in 2022.</span></span></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-top:3px"><span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span style="color:#2f5496"><span style="font-weight:normal">Pennsylvania – Pinkertons Run</span></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Underneath the lush greenery of the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden lies an abandoned coal mine. The land, located in Settlers Cabin Park, was deep mined in the early 1900s, then surface mined in the 1950s and 1960s. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a>Although the botanical gardens remediated many of the environmental effects, pollution from the abandoned, underground mine still escaped into a nearby stream, known as Pinkertons Run. In 2014, the Alleghany County Parks Foundation partnered with Trout Unlimited to assess the stream and discovered that fish were being heavily impacted by the polluted runoff. With funding from WCAP, the Parks Foundation and partners designed a passive treatment system to clean the polluted mine drainage and improve the waterway.</a></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Here’s how it works</b>. Acid mine drainage is collected from decades-old pipes and funneled into the treatment system’s limestone bed. Limestone is alkaline, which makes it great at neutralizing acidity and removing aluminum. Clean water is then discharged to Pinkertons Run while the aluminum-rich solids are collected in a settling pond, where the metals to sink to the bottom instead of entering the stream. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Not everything was smooth sailing, though. 2018 was an especially wet year in Western Pennsylvania, which caused heavy mine drainage flow and almost four times as much pollution to discharge from the mine. “The original system was supposed to be 800 tons of limestone, and we had to double that amount,” said Bob Hedin of Hedin Environmental, the treatment system designer for the project. “Luckily, OSMRE was very generous and was willing to increase their funding for the project to account for these changes.” </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Despite the challenges, Hedin is happy with the results. “It’s the kind of place people will come and visit. There’s a lot of trails through the park, and it’ll be a much nicer spot for recreation now,” he said. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Before the project, the pH of the acid mine drainage was around 3.0; that’s about as acidic as orange juice. Only two months after completing the project, the pH has increased to a neutral 7.0<a name="_Hlk129699740">, and Pinkertons Run no longer receives toxic inflows of aluminum.</a></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Although many think of Appalachia when they think of coal, the Midwest also has an extensive history of surface mining. Iowa has over 350 abandoned mine land sites across the state that pose serious environmental and health risks to nearby communities. Luckily, there are a number of nonprofits trying to combat this issue. Pathfinders RC&D, founded in 1978, has been involved with WCAP since 2006 and has completed around 62 projects in Iowa.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Beaver Creek is a small tributary of the Cheat River and one of just a few to hold trout due to legacy pollution from acid <a name="_Int_bJapcRS2">mine</a> drainage. Friends of the Cheat, a local nonprofit, decided to target the creek as part of their watershed-based approach, in which whole sections of a watershed are treated before moving to another segment. The organization has worked with WCAP numerous times and considers these projects to be the bread and butter of their restoration program.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The treatment system implemented is similar to others mentioned in this article, with a limestone bed to reduce acidity and a settling pond to remove any remaining metals. Water enters the system a vibrant orange and exits crystal-clear.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The project’s success can be felt everywhere from the local ecosystem to the landowners whose property the treatment system operates on. “Like many folks in West Virginia, this is a piece of land that's been in their family for generations,” said Madison Ball, conservation program director at Friends of the Cheat. “They have always thought that it was a shame that this water isn't good for any of the wildlife or even their own livestock to drink. I think they were excited to see it cleaned up, and I know anecdotally we've seen amphibians coming and using the settling pond, just knowing that the chemistry has improved enough for that.”</span></span></span></p>
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