Article: Grant awarded to help clean Somerset County waterway

A $361,000 state Growing Greener grant will help clean polluted Lamberts Run in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, near the 9/11 crash site and the future home of the Flight 93 National Memorial.

The grant, announced Friday by acting Environmental Protection Secretary John Hangar, will be used to design and build two mine drainage treatment facilities.

The underground mines, the source of the pollution, were abandoned prior to World War II. Water samples on Lamberts Run indicate high concentrations of dissolved ...

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