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Acid Mine Drainage Cleanup a Worthy Goal, But Will It Help the Chesapeake Bay?

Bay Journal
Ben Hayes, program director, Watershed Sciences & Engineering Program, led a new report from the state-federal Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee suggesting that accelerated efforts to clean up thousands of miles of rivers and streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed impaired by impacts of acidic runoff draining from long-abandoned coal mines may also help clean up the Chesapeake Bay.

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