Lackawanna River Corridor Association

AMD from the Dana Tunnel discharges from the portal of a drift mine opening that is adjacent to the boiler house of the PG Energy co-generation plant in the municipality of Archbald. The discharge flows for several hundred feet through a drainage ditch along the co-generation plant property and then discharges into a stone culvert which conveys it under the Lackawanna County Rail Authority's Scranton-Carbondale line. It reappears below the railroad grade discharging from a small pipe approximately 25 m off the east bank of the River and 500 m downstream of the end of Laurel Street. From its discharge point at the pipe, the AMD flows through a small rock bottom ditch for about 10 m before running into a culvert under the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail and into the River.

Water Chemistry Data (July 1999)

River Mile 21.7
Flow (mgd) <10
Water Temperature (ºC) 15
pH 7.4
Dissolved oxygen (mg/L) 9.6
Conductivity (µS/cm) 400
Alkalinity (mg/L) 32
Hardness (mg/L) 221
Sulfate (mg/L) 195
Iron (mg/L) 0.05
Manganese (mg/L) 0.2
Copper (mg/L) 0.02
Zinc (mg/L) 0.16
Aluminum (mg/L) 0.69

* Peters, Albert & Associates. 1978. Lackawanna River Mine Drainage Pollution Abatement Project, Part II, Operation Scarlift. Scranton, PA.

View of the Dana Tunnel flowing under the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail

Click here for a topographic map and an aerial photograph of the Jermyn Outfall area.

(Courtesy of Microsoft Terraserver and USGS)