This year will be the 12th Annual Yough Defense Party. The party started with an idea by Ohiopyle’s own Scott Bortree. “Can we buy a keg to raise money for Mountain Watershed’s legal fees?” The Curry Mine, a strip …
Amerikohl Appeals OSM’s Curry Decision
The Curry mine proposal began as far back as 2009 and has been an ongoing battle over whether to allow strip mining along the Great Allegheny Passage and whether timbering a permitted mine site is a mining activity or not. …
We won! Special Exception for Proposed Curry Mine Declared Void!
Today, the Fayette County Court of Common Pleas granted our land use appeal and declared the special exception for the proposed Curry Mine to be void! At this point, Amerikohl has neither a DEP permit nor a zoning special exception to …
Curry Mine Update: MWA Files Amicus Brief
On July 17, 2015, MWA filed an amicus, or friend of the court, brief with the Interior Board of Land Appeals (“IBLA”). This marks the next step in our continued fight against Amerikohl’s mining operations at the Curry site. We …
OSM Actions on Curry Mine Affirmed
On September 8, Administrative Law Judge Harvey Sweitzer with the U.S. Department of the Interior issued a decision on Amerikohl’s request for review of the Office of Surface Mining’s cessation order requiring that the Curry mine site be stabilized after extensive …
DEP Finally Issues Orders on Curry Pollution
For over a year we’ve been filing complaints about extensive erosion and sedimentation issues emanating from the Curry Mine site in Dunbar Township, Fayette County (see here and here for older coverage). We’re happy to report that as a result of our involvement, repeated …
OSM Issues Cessation Order to Amerikohl, Amerikohl Appeals
As a result of a follow-up inspection conducted on the Curry Mine site (see our write-up about the first inspection here), OSM has issued a cessation order to Amerikohl requiring that it cease operations on the site until it complies with …
MWA Accompanies OSM on Curry Mine Inspection
Yesterday our Yough Riverkeeper Krissy Kasserman and Community Advocate Nick Kennedy attended an Office of Surface Mining inspection of the Curry Mine site. Admittedly, it was raining. That said, during our time on the site we did not see a …
OSM determines timbering on Curry site is related to mining
The backstory… We’ve been wrangling with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Amerikhol Mining over erosion & sedimentation issues on the Curry mine site along the Yough in Dunbar Township for nearly a year now (for more information, …
Timbering on Curry Mine Site Pollutes the Yough
We recently became aware of some significant erosion and sedimentation control problems on Amerikohl’s Curry Mine site in Dunbar Township, Fayette County (less than 1000′ from the high-quality portion of the Youghiogheny River and the Great Allegheny Passage). Longtime members …