SWEETWATER COUNTY — Many towns in Sweetwater County were built, literally and figuratively, on the coal mines below them. Coal mining arrived in the area, along with the railroad, in the 1860s. Towns ...
Vibration-mitigating track cushions, laser-based monitoring for subsidence, and grouting teams on standby — East-West Metro’s Bowbazar stretch is equipped with a range of protective measures to ...
Work on a project to reduce abandoned coal mine subsidence in Pittston could last until late summer or early fall, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. Last October, DEP ...
It was meant to be a remediation program to repair extensive mine subsidence damage to Sugarloaf State Conservation Area in the Lower Hunter. Instead it turned one environmental disaster into another.
A new report into ground movement in a former Clackmannanshire mining village said a large area of the site has subsided by almost 2ft (60cm) since 2018. A total of 256 residents in four Coalsnaughton ...
Dawn and Scott Wilson can’t figure out why a state mining engineer decided the cracks in the basement of a home they own in North Belle Vernon were caused by dry soil rather than mine subsidence. They ...