Despite an opening in the bed of Toby Creek behind Luzerne Lumber, near the area where a massive mine subsidence occurred five months ago, water flow appeared slow but steady Sunday morning.
Margaret Roarty | Times Leader
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LUZERNE — According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a new opening formed in the bed of Toby Creek Sunday, causing water loss behind Luzerne Lumber, where a massive mine subsidence was filled in five months ago.
DEP spokesperson Colleen Connolly said in a statement that the department’s Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation and Emergency Response Team assessed the situation and will begin remediating the site over the next few days.
DEP will monitor the creek in the meantime, Connolly said.
When a Times Leader reporter visited the site Sunday morning, water flow in the creek bed appeared steady.
Officials on the scene confirmed some water loss, but the opening itself was “nowhere near” as large as the mine subsidence that opened in April, which took officials about a week to fill and stabilize.