Article: Heavy storms bring iron back to Raccoon Creek.

Byline: Bob Bauder

Mar. 14--John Davidson has watched Raccoon Creek rebound over 30 years from an iron-colored industrial sewer to a clear, life-sustaining stream, but an ironic twist of nature is now threatening a rusty relapse. Record precipitation over the past two years is furiously flushing through abandoned mine workings at the headwaters in Washington and Allegheny counties, spewing harmful levels of iron, aluminum and manganese into the creek.

Iron is the biggest concern, and the creek is again "running red" from Washington County to its mouth at the Ohio River in Beaver County. Environmentalists do not yet know the impact wrought by the heavy ...

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