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AMDTreat, a member of OSM's
Technical Innovation and Professional Services (TIPS) suite of software, is a computer application for estimating abatement
costs for pollutional mine drainage, commonly referred to as Acid Mine
Drainage or AMD*. AMDTreat can assist a user in estimating costs to
abate water pollution using a variety of passive and chemical treatment
types; including, vertical flow ponds, anoxic limestone drains, anaerobic
wetlands, aerobic wetlands, manganese removal beds, oxic limestone
channels, caustic soda, hydrated lime, pebble quicklime, ammonia and soda
ash treatment systems. The acid mine drainage abatement cost model
provides over 400 user modifiable variables in
estimating costs for treatment
facility construction, excavation, revegetation, piping, road
construction, land
acquisition, system maintenance, labor, water sampling, design, surveying,
pumping, sludge removal, chemical consumption, clearing and grubbing,
mechanical aeration, and ditching.
(Pronounced: am'-D-treat or A-M-D-treat.) |
| * The term AMD is used, in
this context, to refer to any pollutional discharge emanating from a
mining operation. Many of these discharges are, in fact,
alkaline with high levels of metals. |
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AMDTreat News
Comments
The
AMDTreat Team has begun work on the next version of
AMDTreat. To help us with that process,
we are requesting your input as to what new features or improvements
to existing features should be included. If you have some ideas to
improve or enhance AMDTreat, please contact us using the E-Mail
addresses or phone number on our Support
page. Also, view our current list of proposed improvements (Wish
List).
Registration
The AMDTreat Development Team and TIPS are requesting that you
register as a user of AMDTreat. As a
registered user, you will receive notice of upcoming AMDTreat events,
including training and software updates. And, perhaps more
importantly, it causes the little popup registration
reminder to stop popping up.
In addition, the new registration page collects important information
about you and your use of the software that gives the development team
needed information to insure continued support for the software.
Four C's Award
The AMDTreat
Development Team was the recipient of the Secretary of Interior's
"Four C's" Award" for 2003. This award is given annually to groups or
individuals that exemplify the Four C's concepts of "Consultation,
Cooperation, and Communication all in the service of Conservation." |
AMDTreat was developed cooperatively by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection, the West Virginia Department of
Environmental Protection and the U.S. Office of
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM).
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