{"id":25939,"date":"2024-01-19T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25939"},"modified":"2024-01-19T16:18:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:18:46","slug":"clearfield-and-indiana-county-conservation-districts-receive-abandoned-mine-lands-and-acid-mine-drainage-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25939","title":{"rendered":"Clearfield and Indiana County Conservation Districts Receive Abandoned Mine Lands and Acid Mine Drainage Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25940\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Clarion-County-AMD-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Clarion-County-AMD-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Clarion-County-AMD-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Clarion-County-AMD-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Clarion-County-AMD-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Clarion-County-AMD-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced up to $101,110,178 in funding for 16 environmental restoration projects of abandoned mine lands (AML) as a part of the Abandoned Mine Lands and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Grant Program. These projects focus on reclaiming AML, decreasing AMD, or treating AMD through the construction, operation, and\/or maintenance of an AMD treatment facility.<\/p>\r\n<p>Two conservation districts received grants:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Clearfield County Conservation District\u2014 $533,134\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Anderson South (Planning and Development)\u2014 The project will restore Anderson Creek.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Indiana County Conservation District\u2014 $195,283\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Bear Run South\u2014 The project will include designing, engineering, and permitting two AMD passive treatment systems to replace existing ineffective lime-dosing silos. South Branch Bear Run and discharge areas PA3326 and PA1029 will also be assessed.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahs.dep.pa.gov\/NewsRoomPublic\/articleviewer.aspx?id=22396&amp;typeid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the entire press release.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced up to $101,110,178 in funding for 16 environmental restoration projects of abandoned mine lands (AML) as a part of the Abandoned Mine Lands and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Grant Program. These projects focus on reclaiming AML, decreasing AMD, or treating AMD through the construction, operation, and\/or maintenance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}