material dredged from the Delaware River to Hazleton-area mines

[jeff of pa]

Federal funds would pay to take material dredged from the Delaware River to abandoned mines in Hazleton through a bill U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter said he will sponsor.

Speaking on Monday, when dredging began on the river, the Pennsylvania Democrat said he would propose an amendment to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act that allows for transporting and disposing of the dredged material in mines.

http://republicanherald.com/news/spe...mines-1.651186

[baspinall]

Now that would be neat to detect!

[jeff of pa]

What TYPE of mines are these?

Most likely Anthracite Strip Mines.

We have Thousands of Gigantic Holes

From My area of Schuylkill County
all through Northeastern Pennsysvania

[jopher]

Oh...what treasures will lie in those slop piles.

[jeff of pa]

KINGSTON - A massive mine-reclamation project in Hazleton utilizing material dredged from the bottom of the Delaware River was the focus of a raid by federal agents who descended on a Kingston office building Tuesday.

About 15 federal agents spent more than two hours removing boxes of documents from the Third Avenue headquarters of Fort Mifflin Reclamation Associates Inc. and Hazleton Creek Properties LLC. The two companies are involved in a multi-million-dollar project to fill mines and landfills on a 277-acre site with soil dredged from the Delaware and develop the site with an amphitheater, restaurants and other businesses.

Fort Mifflin has been paid $38 million for transporting material dredged from the river as part of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deepening project since 2006. Hazleton Creek has an agreement with the city of Hazleton to reclaim the mining site and purchase it from a city agency for $3 million over the next five years.

http://republicanherald.com/news/fbi...gston-1.729726