Daily American Correspondent
The ongoing legacy at the Flight 93 National Memorial comes not only in the form of remembering what occurred. Ongoing land and water conservation that was immediately and directly interwoven at the site for the last 20 years as well continues to be part of the story.
The unique landscape of the memorial site, located at the headwaters of small watercourse known as Lamberts Run, was an underground and surface-mined site for decades. It was in part owned by PBS Coals at the time of the crash.
In the aftermath the crash site immediately became sacred ground. The area nearby, however, was contaminated by visible abandoned mine drainage, aka AMD.
In an effort to alleviate this, PBS constructed treatment ponds and pumped the water to them from the crash site that dried up the noticeable orange water from the view of the sacred ground. A complication arose in that the newly formed Families of Flight 93 wanted to purchase the land to eventually construct the memorial, but manganese — one of the several contaminating metals contained in the AMD — had to be removed in the treatment process as mandated by state and federal water quality regulations. The added treatment cost made the purchase price too high for the transfer to move forward.
After much negotiation, the federal agencies made an exemption to relax the requirements for treatment for manganese. This significantly reduced the cost of the treatment and enabled the purchase of the property to...
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