By: Berlin On: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:19 pm
It's acid mine water, not liquid death.
When injected into high lime shales it will quickly neutralize and become a non-issue. That's how this stuff is treated anyway when pumped out - it's pumped to a retention pond, loaded with lime, tested, and then dumped into the nearest waterway. There's nothing magically evil about it, It's high iron content (orange) acidic mine water made so by pyritic sulfur in coal beds.