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The Oklahoma Plan for Tar Creek has listed four main objectives in the process: improving surface water quality, reducing exposure to lead dust, attenuating mine hazards, and land reclamation. [ 8 ] The University of Oklahoma's Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science has implemented a 1.2 million dollar passive water treatment ...
The EPA, the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, local communities, and private companies continue to work together in implementing and monitoring response actions that reduce or remove potential adverse impacts posed by remaining mine wastes contaminated with lead, zinc, cadmium, and other metals.
Acid mine drainage also affects the wildlife living within the affected body of water. Aquatic macroinvertebrates living in streams or parts of streams affected by acid mine drainage show fewer individuals, less diversity, and lower biomass. Many species of fish also cannot tolerate the pollution. [15]
The Cherokee County Superfund site is the Kansas portion of the Tri-State district. Acidic waters in mine shafts throughout the site, chat piles, tailings impoundments, surface waters in the mine pits, and streams draining the site contain significant concentrations of lead, zinc, and cadmium. [20] [21] 12/30/1982: 09/08/1983 – – –
A creek affected by abandoned mine drainage. Abandoned mine drainage (also known as AMD [1]) is a form of water pollution involving water that has been polluted by contact with mines, typically coal mines. [2] Although it is sometimes called "acid mine drainage", not all abandoned mine drainage is acidic. [3] [4]
There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines in the United States. Many abandoned mines pose environmental challenges, such as acid mine drainage. In Colorado alone, there are 18,382 abandoned mines. [34] The United States has had many different environmental disasters caused by these mines, such as the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill.
Mine safety incidents have been important parts of American occupational safety and health history. Mining has a number of environmental impacts . In the United States, issues like mountaintop removal , and acid mine drainage have widespread impacts on all parts of the environment.
This can happen in open pit mines as well as in underground mines. Large problems are also developing with abandoned mines that have accumulated acid mine drainage that are growing to become a larger problem as the water sits in the mine and reacts with the exposed rock. [12] There can be mitigation through proper management and with enough ...