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06-04-2013, 11:26 AM
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Just stumbled across this one. This is from some guy's Facebook page on the abandoned coal mines of NEPA.
Apparently, when they stopped coal mining in NE Pennsylvania in the 1960's they shut the pumps off in the mines, and the mines filled up with ground water. The people living in the low parts of the valleys started to get flooding in their basements as the water in the lower parts of the mine was under intense pressure and was looking for a way out. In the winter, the water would freeze and would act like a slow moving glacier, destroying foundations and damaging houses in these valleys. Since Wilkes Barre and Scranton are both in the valley, this meant that lots of houses were potentially at risk. So officials came in to figure out what to do, and they decided to drill holes down into the mines down in the valleys to let the water escape. So for the last 50 years, there has been all this water coming up out of the mines at these boreholes. It's pretty nasty water. Fairly acidic, and with an extremely high iron content. It kills all aquatic creatures in the creeks that are fed in part by these bore holes, and goes on to pollute the Chesapeake Bay before it reaches the Atlantic ocean. The biggest point source of pollution for the Chesapeake is one of these boreholes called the Old Forge Borehole. There's talk of building water treatment plants to treat this water, but it hasn't happened in the last 50 years, so we'll see. Anyway, I think it's a cool picture of an interesting thing I'd never heard of before. This particular borehole is in Wilkes Barre in Solomon creek, behind the Dollar General. |
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06-25-2013, 07:47 PM
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Wollenda over the Little Colorado River 6/23/13
I agree with my wife... we should not reward bad behavior 
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07-07-2013, 06:50 PM
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A friend sent me these pictures of the 4th of July in Boston Harbor. They drag the Constitution out of it's berth with tugs, then surrounded by Harbor Police boats to fend off tourists, they fire it's cannons.
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07-08-2013, 02:30 AM
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Story in English...?
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