Pennsylvania’s Centre County is engaged in a difficult environmental debate over acid drainage from its Skytop Mountain site. The acid runs from the large pyrite stacks created during road construction. In an opinion letter to the Centre Daily Times, Andrew Sicree calls for calm in the debate, discouraging the fly ash debate and encouraging a more sensible, experience-driven heap-leach design. Interested engineering firms should take note.

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