WESTERN MARYLAND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, INC.
 

Kempton Complex Monitoring Project - Garrett County

This project entails the fifth consecutive year that the water quality, wildlife and vegetation will be surveyed to determine the health of the region at the Kempton Mine Complex, the largest abandoned coal mine complex in Maryland.

Each year since reclamation activities have taken place at the Kempton site, Professor Peter Skylstad and students of the Natural Resources and Wildlife Technology Program at Garrett College have conducted systematic surveys of the types and densities of vegetation, mammals, benthic invertebrates, amphibians and fish at the wetland areas on the Kempton site.

Sophisticated GPS and GIS technologies have been used to ensure that sampling is done from exactly the same location each year.  The data    collection which began in FY2005 will be completed in FY2006                                                                                           and the project will result in a comprehensive report unlike any other ever done in a reclaimed coal region.  Our partners on the project are Garrett College, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Power Plant Research Program, the Maryland Bureau of Mines, the Office of Surface Mining and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

All programs and services of the Western Maryland RC&D Council are offered on a non-discriminatory basis, without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital or family status, disability or political beliefs.

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Last modified: 02/21/06