This is really awesome to see all this mining industry still left standing. My question to the explorer why don't you have a real good light to bring with you?
Today a lot of the property in Bear Gap is now privatly owned by the proprietor of Teters Bodyshop. In the area of the old Power Plant Ruin he is doing a scrapping operation with junk cars.
Orange stinky streams are fairly common in Anthracite Country, PA. I suppose Western Bituminous Cointry to. Anthracite Country starts in Northeastern Dauphin County, PA and roughly follows the line of Interstate 81 Northeast past Wilkes-Barre/Scranton to nearly the New York Line. It also inludes the western edge of the Pocono Region. I myself reside 6 miles from the location of that Video. I am well familiar.
who is responsible for cleaning up this mess? makes me angry to see how irresponsible mining companies are ...leaving pollution for all to suffer. water is never treated as the precious commodity it is until its gone....man...the boy who cried wolf.....boo hoo what happened to our water???
Have you guys seen the latest on Tracy Kroh? Investigators have recordings from suspect Mark Warfel saying this... Kim: "Well, how did he kill her?" Warfel: "I would say he choked her because she was so little." Warfel doesn't say how he knows the information but offers details. Warfel: "He very likely put her in one of them mine shafts." Kim: "What mine shaft?" Warfel: "Up around Loyalton."
If the perpetrator could have gotten her to the top on the Gratz side the Airshaft the Gratz miners used for an entrance is still open. It would take a cave diver to descend into Short Mountain to look.
Oh my friiend....I've been coming here for almost 70 years. My family worked at the Lykens mines. You missed so much!! Up into the early 70s there were mine opening everywhere ! I know where most of them are. The state came in in the late 70s and bulldozered them shut. The creek comes out of a long straight tunnel to the other side of the mountain .I saw the opening with grandfather in the early 50s. But what you really missed!!!......was the main shaft near the locked biulding. The shaft was open up into the late 60s.It was 40 x 40 feet square concrete lined shaft opening and 4000+ feet straight down ! It was water filled about a hundred feet down. It was half covered with planks but the kids where always slidding the boards aside. My father and grandpop would never go near the edge, They both where down in there in 1929 ish.
@@paulkeiser6980 really? looks like they did a major piece of work on healthy water....should make anyone who sees this angry. man has no right to pollute water....you know, the stuff you can't live without??? Lykens mines comes, destroys and walks away like a thief in the night.
It isn't too bad. All through Anthracite Country one side of a valley had coal and the other side did not. It is the way the coal veins run whether high enough to extract or not. Here in the valley Berry Mountain/Greenland to the South is clean and pristine but Short/Big Lick the water is hard or mine drain. Many people not on municiple water which is sourced from Berry Mountain use bottled/spring for drinking.
My dad was raised in Lykens and explored a lot of the area as a boy. Great video.
that large foundation was for the power plant for the mine. the structures you seen at the gated medco road was the remains of the railroad bridge
Thanks for sharing. One thing I ask is if you can carry a good flashlight if your going to be looking for tunnells. Be safe!!
Its is amazing how much pollution is caused from mining 100 years ago. I wonder if it will ever clean up.
Really good video. Thanks for posting. Stay safe while exploring sir.
maybe those stairs were to raise the oxygen content in the water?
This is really awesome to see all this mining industry still left standing. My question to the explorer why don't you have a real good light to bring with you?
Today a lot of the property in Bear Gap is now privatly owned by the proprietor of Teters Bodyshop. In the area of the old Power Plant Ruin he is doing a scrapping operation with junk cars.
That orange water is awful. It seems like a difficult problem to deal with. I wonder what it was like before the mines.
I've never seen water that color before. Pretty incredible to see.
Orange stinky streams are fairly common in Anthracite Country, PA. I suppose Western Bituminous Cointry to. Anthracite Country starts in Northeastern Dauphin County, PA and roughly follows the line of Interstate 81 Northeast past Wilkes-Barre/Scranton to nearly the New York Line. It also inludes the western edge of the Pocono Region. I myself reside 6 miles from the location of that Video. I am well familiar.
Very interesting again!
This looks like the place that you took us to. Where the guy bought the property n was gonna restore.
I have heard that cat tails are pretty good at filtering mine run off...
Spillway !!!
Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) = orange stuff
who is responsible for cleaning up this mess? makes me angry to see how irresponsible mining companies are ...leaving pollution for all to suffer. water is never treated as the precious commodity it is until its gone....man...the boy who cried wolf.....boo hoo what happened to our water???
thanks
That orange is sulfur and yes it stinks smells like rotten eggs lol
lorie locke 🤢
That building with the trash dumpster outside doesn't look abandoned. There is equipment inside. Just broken windows.
There’s even a no trespassing sign at the beginning of Medco road
Have you guys seen the latest on Tracy Kroh? Investigators have recordings from suspect Mark Warfel saying this...
Kim: "Well, how did he kill her?"
Warfel: "I would say he choked her because she was so little."
Warfel doesn't say how he knows the information but offers details.
Warfel: "He very likely put her in one of them mine shafts."
Kim: "What mine shaft?"
Warfel: "Up around Loyalton."
If the perpetrator could have gotten her to the top on the Gratz side the Airshaft the Gratz miners used for an entrance is still open. It would take a cave diver to descend into Short Mountain to look.
This Pa or Wv?
PA
i used to live in WV and PA does look alot like the woods in WV
So sad to see the pollution. Think of the effects on the wildlife and us.
Ok boomer
pretty cool ...where did u park
+Kev Boehler the gate at Medico road, I think that was the name..
Oh my friiend....I've been coming here for almost 70 years. My family worked at the Lykens mines. You missed so much!! Up into the early 70s there were mine opening everywhere ! I know where most of them are. The state came in in the late 70s and bulldozered them shut. The creek comes out of a long straight tunnel to the other side of the mountain .I saw the opening with grandfather in the early 50s. But what you really missed!!!......was the main shaft near the locked biulding. The shaft was open up into the late 60s.It was 40 x 40 feet square concrete lined shaft opening and 4000+ feet straight down ! It was water filled about a hundred feet down. It was half covered with planks but the kids where always slidding the boards aside. My father and grandpop would never go near the edge, They both where down in there in 1929 ish.
@@paulkeiser6980 really? looks like they did a major piece of work on healthy water....should make anyone who sees this angry. man has no right to pollute water....you know, the stuff you can't live without??? Lykens mines comes, destroys and walks away like a thief in the night.
That rusty looking water is nasty looking. No place for me and my dog Abby.
My favorite part was the water stairs.
only man destroys his own environment and drags wildlife down with him. shame shame.
Toxic everywhere. Glad I don't live in or near that area.
And how do you know its toxic, have you been there and measured it, smartass ?
Maybe it comes from your toilet.......
It isn't too bad. All through Anthracite Country one side of a valley had coal and the other side did not. It is the way the coal veins run whether high enough to extract or not. Here in the valley Berry Mountain/Greenland to the South is clean and pristine but Short/Big Lick the water is hard or mine drain. Many people not on municiple water which is sourced from Berry Mountain use bottled/spring for drinking.