Jennings Environmental Education
Center, PA DCNR, Bureau of State Parks
Brady Township, Butler County, PA
FUNDING SOURCE:
United States Environmental Protection Agency Fiscal Year 1996 Section 319
grant through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of
Land and Water Conservation.
PROJECT PARTICIPANTS:
| Hedin Environmental |
Jennings Environmental Education Center |
| CDS Associates, Inc. |
Grove City College |
| Girl Scouts |
Home-Body Students |
| Jesteadt Excavating |
PA Bureau of District Mining Operations (Knox) |
| Slippery Rock University |
Shaliston Trucking |
| Quality Aggregates Inc. |
Amerikohl Mining, Inc. |
| Stream Restoration Inc. |
U.S. Department of Energy |
COMPLETION DATE:
Major construction completed September 1997
Water Quality Monitoring ongoing: PA DEP, Knox DMO and Slippery Rock University
MATERIALS USED FOR TREATMENT:
300 Tons of Spent Mushroom Compost mixed with
380 Tons of # 9 Special Limestone aggregate.
WATER COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION:
Overdrain: 2" PVC header pipe with 3/4" perforated laterals (20'
in length) every 6 feet fed by three 2" inlet pipes from flow splitter box.
Flow splitter box is plumbed into previously constructed anoxic collection
system.
Underdrain: Three sections of 2" PVC fed by 3/4" perforated
laterals (15' in length) every 6 feet bedded in river gravel.
Outlet: 4" flexible plastic pipe with clear insert for observation,
adjustable to control water level in system.
SYSTEM DIMENSIONS (FEET):
| |
Length |
Width |
Depth |
| Vertical Flow System |
150 |
50 |
6 |
| Channel Wetland |
175 |
8 |
<1/2 |
| Wetland |
100 |
20 |
1/2 |
| Settling Pond |
100 |
20 |
33 |
WATER QUALITY (representation):
| |
Flow (gpm) |
pH |
Alk(mg/I) |
Acd(mg/I) |
Fe(mg/I) |
Al(mg/I) |
| RAW |
30 |
3 |
0 |
300 |
50 |
20 |
| Final Effluent |
30 |
7 |
200 |
0 |
1 |
<1 |
