Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plans to fix up abandoned mine lands and clean a mine-polluted watershed in two Schuylkill County municipalities are moving ...

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Coalfield Development is working to reclaim abandoned mine land at the Highwall site in Delbarton, using a method aimed at transforming rocky, barren ground into usable land again. Coal once drove ...

A look at transforming neglected land into a working off-grid homestead, focusing on land clearing, early infrastructure, rebuilding utilities, and slowly turning an abandoned space into a livable ...

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BRANCH TOWNSHIP — Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project near Branchdale on Friday. The project, spearheaded by ...