HARRISBURG The Department of Environmental Protection has awarded $7,983,107 for remediation projects at and near abandoned mine sites, including ones in Blythe and East Norwegian townships, Schuylkill County. Others are in Luzerne, Clearfield and Somerset counties.
"These projects will make one neighborhood safer from mine subsidence, provide water to another, and reclaim hundreds of acres of land that was mined and abandoned decades ago," DEP Deputy Secretary for Active and Abandoned Mine Operations John Stefanko said.
