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 Natural Resources, Division of Mineral Resources Management, Abandoned Mineland Division, funded a project uphill of the site. An abandoned and forfeited mining site was reclaimed and a pond on the site was mixed with steel slag. The effluent from this pond was mixed with the HR-25 effluent. A phase two will need to fully address the acid mine drainage.