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Investigation of Underground Abandoned Coal Mines as Storage Reservoirs for Wet Weather Overflows
Community Involved: Upper St. Clair, Chartiers Nature Conservancy
Project Goal: To evaluate the feasibility to utilize abandoned mine voids for wet weather overflow storage.
Project Summary: Feasibility study to investigate if the concept of storage of wet weather sewer overflows in abandoned deep coal mines is applicable to the lower Chartiers Creek watershed communities.
Total Cost: $124,350
3 Rivers Wet Weather Grant Award: $24,350
Start Date: January 2002
Completion Date: Summer 2004
Project Progress: Analysis complete. Click
here for the final
report.
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