Iron Miners
It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:54 pm

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 4 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: Drilling underway at Scrub Oak
PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:18 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 1:07 pm
Posts: 17
Location: Wharton, NJ
A Report from Irondale (Wharton / Mine Hill).

This past Sunday, I saw a drilling rig parked in the woods off the Irondale trail. I guess the Morris County Municipal Ultilities Authority is making good on their $500,000 grant to study the use of the former Scrub Oak Mine for public drinking water storage.

The area was marked-off with many small surveyor flags, but I did not understand what they were demarcating. Do they indicate the assumed northern boundary of the underground workings?

The section of Irondale trail where it meets the powerline r-o-w was bulldozed to allow the drill truck to enter the woods, decimating some of the tailings piles that lay undisturbed for close to 100 years. Fortunately, the Corwin Mine adit was still untouched, but the bulldozer came very close.

Your roving reporter.

_________________
The past is the foundation of the future.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:37 pm 
Offline
Site Admin

Joined: Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:33 pm
Posts: 3080
Location: Above the Sterling Hill Mine
Rob,

Thanks and keep us posted on the progress of this. I hadn't heard much lately from this project and wasn't sure if they were still going forward with it. Have they stared drilling in any places in particular?

Miner Greg


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:35 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 1:07 pm
Posts: 17
Location: Wharton, NJ
Greg, I'll have to go back to take a look. I was focused on the nearby Erb Mine, so didn't spend much time looking at their drilling. Won't get back up there for a few wks. It will be interesting to observe their drill pattern, which should tell us something about the scope of the Scrub Oak workings.

One thing worries me though...the quarry has been working its way northeast, and the bright green quarry water (a high concentration of lime?) is now draining into the Mill Pond marsh. I hope it doesn't kill off all the wildlife now dependant on that small ecosystem. Where's the EPA when we need them?

_________________
The past is the foundation of the future.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:57 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:44 pm
Posts: 385
Location: Hamburg, NJ
Good ole Scrub Oaks

Image

_________________
www.abandonedmines.net


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 4 posts ] 

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 67 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group