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 |
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