Projects :: Huff Run Watershed Restoration Partnership

AMD Projects

Lyons Restoration

The Lyons site was ranked fourth by the watershed group in its initial planning period. It was one of the highest contributors of AMD within the lower reaches of the watershed. The problems were caused by unvegetated coal refuse, open highwalls, acid ... Read More

Harsha North

Harsha North was the highest contributor of AMD contamination and was also high in iron, acidity, and aluminum contribution. It was ranked second highest of all sites by the Huff Run group in their initial planning stages. The site was primarily toxic... Read More

Linden Bioremediation Project

Linden was the third ranking site of importance by the Huff Run group. This was the first project in Ohio to use the Pyrolucite Bioremediation process. The process consists of a wetland to take metals out of the contaminated water and then a large lim... Read More

Fern Hill/ HR-42

HR-42 (also called Fern Hill for its large hillside of Christmas Ferns) consists of three acid pits and a large AMD plume that sits directly beside Huff Run itself, dumping severe amounts of AMD directly into the stream. A grant from the Office of Sur... Read More

Farr Anoxic Limestone Drain

Farr/South Side Tipple was a two phase process. First, regrading and revegetation were conducted. The following year, an anoxic limestone drain was put in place. This ALD has been working to take out alkalinity and raise pH but is not working at its ... Read More

Belden Restoration

The Belden project was studied and partially designed by the Army Corps of Engineers. Their plans included reclamation of mine spoil and related land as well as a passive treatment system to treat the remaining seeps with a successive alkaline produc... Read More

HRWRP Acid Pit

The HRWRP Acid Pit #1 is a very small area with a large acid pit beside a gob pile. This project was finished in the summer of 2003 to refill the pit, regrade and revegetate the area. Open limestone channels were installed to treat the run off and kee... Read More

Thomas Restoration Project

Thomas is located south west of Linden. The site is composed of approximately twenty acres of surface mine water impoundments and toxic mine spoil. The impoundments are recharging a shallow deep mine, allowing for large contributions of metals and aci... Read More

Mineral-Zoar Road Reclamation

The Mineral-Zoar Road Reclamation Project is the first reverse alkaline producing system (RAPS) in the state of Ohio. The project has removed all acidity and a great deal of acid mine drainage from two coal mines. The project has also decreased floodi... Read More

Huff Run Abandoned Mine Land Project

The Huff Run ALM Reclamation Project was the first major project in the watershed. It was completed in 1998 to reduce sedimentation and acid loading from a large, unreclaimed surface mine. The project involved the resoiling and revegetation of over ... Read More

Lindentree Restoration

The Lindentree Project was completed in the winter of 2004. The site is northeast of Linden and had consisted of many acidic ponds, high walls and exposed gob piles. The restoration project regraded and revegatated the area along with filling in acid ... Read More

Miller Mining Forfeture/ HR-22

Located downstream in Tuscarawas County, the HR-22 site was forfeited by the Miller Mining Company. A small tributary from Huff Run flows from large gob piles. This small stream then flows though a forested area but outcroppings of toxic sandstone can... Read More

HR-25

During the initial planning stages, the HR-25 site was found to have the worst water quality throughout the watershed. Because of its extreme downstream location, the project had not taken priority until 2009. At this point, the Ohio Department of Nat... Read More

Taggart's Wetland

Around the midpoint of the stream, Huff Run breaks into a series of wetlands that were caused by a beaver dam in the late 1990s. Since, the beaver dam has broken up but the stream has never flowed as one unit though this area since. Wetlands are a gre... Read More

Harsha South

Harsha South is ranked among the highest of all the problem areas in Huff Run. The area has unreclaimed surface mining, exposed coal waste and abandoned mining facilities along with AMD discharges. Monitor wells have been established for further study... Read More

HR-38

The HR-38 site is in a downstream location and so has not been a priority to date. Because of its high acidity loading, the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mineral Resources Management has agreed to fund a study of the project site to lea... Read More

Jobes Restoration

This project, like the Huff Run Abandoned Mineland Project, was funded by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Mineral Resources Management, Division of Abandoned Minelands. Completed in 1989, this was the very first project in the watershed. Six... Read More

Hope Road West

The Hope Road West Project located directly west of the Lindentree Project across Hope Road. The project area consists of two large acid mine drainage water-filled impoundments (each approximately 500 linear feet long) separated by an earthen dam and ... Read More

Monthly Meeting

Our next Huff Run meeting will be May 15, 2012 at the Huff Run Office in Mineral City at 5:30pm. Join us.

Our Mission

To restore the Huff Run Watershed by improving water quality and enhancing wildlife habitat through community support and involvement.