Program
All Presentations (pdf)

Monday
8:15 Brent Means
10:10 James J. Gusek
12:40 Jonathan M. Dietz
2:15 Kimberly R. Weaver
4:00 Brent Means

Tuesday
8:45 Robert Kleinmann
9:15 Brent Means
9:30 James J. Gusek
10:00 Glenn C. Miller
10:30 Linda Ann Figueroa
12:40 Art Rose
1:10 Charles A. Cravotta III
1:40 Danielle M C Huminicki
2:50 Bernard Aube
3:20 Timothy K. Tsukamoto
3:50 Bradley R. Shultz
4:20 Kimberly R. Weaver

Wednesday

8:00 Linda Ann Figueroa
8:30 John Senko
9:00 Song Jin
10:10 Jonathan M. Dietz
10:40 Daryle H. Fish
12:40 John Chermak
1:10 Griff Wyatt
1:40 Dan Mueller
2:50 Sean C. Muller
3:20 Jack Adams
3:50 Roger Bason
3:50 Mark B. Carew

Thursday
8:00 Rep. John E. Peterson
8:30 Scott Sibley
9:00 Charles A. Cravotta III
9:30 Michael R. Silsbee
10:30 Lykourgos Iordanidis
11:00 Mark Conedera
11:30 Barry Scheetz
1:25 William Benusa
1:55 Mike Sawayda
2:25 Susan J. Tewalt
3:25 Robert S. Hedin
3:55 Chad J. Penn

4:25 Ron Neufeld



Tuesday 9:15 Brent Means, Hydrologist, OSM

Overview of Passive Treatment in Pennsylvania

Author(s)

Brent Means, Hydrologist
OSM
415 Market St, Suite 3C
Harrisburg, PA 17101
717-782-4080 x18
bmeans@OSMRE.GOV

 


Abstract

During the past decade, Pennsylvania has experienced a strong growth in the formation of watershed groups that use public money to build treatment systems on abandoned mine discharges. The Office of Surface Mining, Harrisburg Field Office, recently completed a database that records spatial, financial, and project information for these treatment projects. The database shows over $60 million dollars of public money have been spent on treating mine drainage since 1995. The State of Pennsylvania’s Growing Greener initiative has contributed to the most projects followed by the EPA 319 program, OSM Watershed Cooperative Agreement program, OSM Clean Stream program, USDA PL566, OSM 10% set aside program, EPA Watershed Assistance program, and the USCOE. Querying the database shows that Schuylkill County contains the most projects, but Elk County received the most funding. Over 74% of the treatment projects are constructed on deep mine discharges while 21% have been built on surface mine discharges and the remaining on refuse discharges.

Presentation

Biography

Mr. Means holds a MS degree in Hydrogeology from Wright State University. He previously worked for USGS and was in coal consulting before joining OSM 6 years ago in the Harrisburg Field Office. Brent has made mine water treatment his passion; acting as a leader within the agency for the development of new and improved treatment technologies; Brent is the technical lead in development of AMDTreat, software developed to cost out treatment options and determine financial forecasting of future expenditures. Also Brent has been a lead developer and instructor of the OSM Passive Treatment Course and has been instrumental in developing the technical program for the Mine Water Treatment Conference.