Project Description:
The Kempton Mine Complex was an active coal mine in the early 1900s in western Maryland. Today, it discharges acid mine drainage (AMD) at high flow rates from an airshaft and borehole into a tributary of the North Branch of the Potomac River. The drainage has impaired local ecosystems and contaminated waterways with heavy metals. Current treatment efforts by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) are inefficient. MDE has tasked our team with improving the airshaft treatment design.
