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GRANTSVILLE — The Youghiogheny River Watershed Association and the Maryland Department of the Environment’s Abandoned Mine Lands Division will hold a public information meeting on their Casselman River Watershed Remediation Plan on Aug. 4 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Grantsville Town Hall, 171 Hill St.
The MDE expects work to begin in the watershed as early as October. Representatives of the Abandoned Mine Lands Division will present the plan in a brief PowerPoint presentation. Representatives of MDE from Baltimore will be available to answer questions.
The Casselman River flows north from its headwaters near Savage River State Forest to the Pennsylvania state line and lies within the Monongahela River Watershed, a part of the Ohio River drainage basin. The Casselman is a high-quality mountain stream noted for its populations of brook trout, stonecats and hellbenders in the less impaired parts. The tributaries of the Casselman Watershed have shown significant reductions in the native brook trout population, resulting from acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines as well as atmospheric deposits.
The remediation plan consists of several phases, including identification of sources and major discharges, generating a list of impaired stream segments and a database of segments, prioritizing impaired streams and developing solutions to correct the impairments.
The meeting will center on discussing solutions that will be implemented. Some solutions include removal of some vegetation and trees in order to install in-ground, alkalinity-producing systems that will neutralize the acidity of selected streams and waterways in the north and south branches of the Casselman River.
Information on the meeting can be obtained by calling James “Smokey” Stanton, chairman, Youghiogheny River Watershed Association, at 301-334-3788.
For more information on the plan, contact the Abandoned Mine Lands Division, 160 S. Water St., Frostburg, MD 21532 at 301- 689-1465.
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Casselman River watershed plan public meeting scheduled Aug. 4
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