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Earth Day activities
Friendly competition among volunteer teams of up to 10 co-workers, cleaning litter in Allegheny County from April 21 to June 22, sponsored by Allegheny CleanWays. Winning teams will receive prizes from some of the region s environmentally conscious businesses. Members of the Allegheny CleanWays & Friends of the Riverfront crew will introduce creative and enjoyable challenges weekly to promote responsible stewardship and strategies to do more good. Register for a morning and evening session of cleaning up litter along the Allegheny River on Thursday using the organization s boat, Rachel Carson. Both sessions will leave from Steel City Rowing dock at 101 Arch St., Verona. Sessions are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. Boat will take volunteers to sites not easily accessible from land.
Conservation and quality are one and the same for Ralph Frye. And itâs the neighborly thing to do.
The 2020 Westmoreland Conservation District Farmer of the Year credits the success of his Pleasant Lane Farms in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to being considerate to those around him â people and the environment.
âWe do everything that we can to keep everyone pacified,â he said. âWe always try to do something better, so people donât complain, and thatâs just the name of the game.â
Farming in the extensively mined coal fields of the Allegheny Mountains is particularly challenging.
âIt seems like thereâs water coming up where you didnât have water before,â Frye said. âI got wet spots where I never had wet spots in fields now.â
Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review
A large pile of coal refuse is seen near Sewickley Creek on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2021 in South Huntingdon.
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Nearby residents and environmentalists are worried a proposed project to reclaim coal refuse in South Huntingdon could negatively impact local water and air quality.
They aired their concerns this week at a virtual meeting about Robindale Energy Services’ plan to remove usable fuel from the Soberdash coal refuse pile on 12 acres near Hunker and leave behind a grassy area suitable for industrial development.
Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review
A large pile of coal refuse is seen near Sewickley Creek on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2021 in South Huntingdon.
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A coal refuse pile in South Huntingdon that has been a source of pollution in adjacent Sewickley Creek for decades could soon be transformed into a site for potential industrial development.
Latrobe-based Robindale Energy Services plans to remove about 85% of the coal refuse, known as the Soberdash Pile, and reclaim the 17-acre site located between Elderaldo Road and the creek, not far from Hunker. The work would be completed under a proposed contract subject to review by the state Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Office of Surface Mining.