UMD volunteers and interns attend mine site visit June 4

We traveled to Claiborne county to meet up with the Office of Surface Mining represenatives to tour the Appolo Fuels Jellico Strip Mine. Wearing our hard hats and steel toed shoes we saw more destruction of the land. There were many violations of the permit that we saw including a leaking sediment dam, trees growing on many of the dams of areas previously reclaimed, and erosion of reclaimed areas due to a lack of hydroseeding. OSM's hydrologist Rick Mann accompained us on the visit and seemed shocked by some of the water quality issues.