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That would be the Schuylkill River - the river that is the source of most Philly water west of the Delaware River. Even Philadelphia gets all its water from the Schuylkill. Currently due to open pit mines and mine tailings, garbage dumps, leaking spetic systems, etc; the only source of clean water in the entire Schuylkill valley are French Creek and Pickering Run.
Doing nothing is not a viable alternative either. And since so many of us let dirt wash downstream (we don't practice soil conservation) and since so many advocate use of energy inefficient 'toys', then those rivers must have the bottom cleaned anyway - with those toxic materials dumped somewhere.
Last I looked, the Delaware was only dredged to something around 30 feet deep. Then entire Delaware must be dredged to well over 40 feet - for almost 100 miles. Necessary for things such as SUVs. Where is all that material suppose to be dumped?
In the meantime, 500+ tones of material on the highways is nonsnese. After all, that material was removed from the mines. Where do we think it all went to?
Is this a good or bad idea? I don't know. But action is required. Worst case scenario is to do nothing.
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