Nice page, better get that brown trout out of that stream, however if you want to keep the native reproduction.

I'm sure that the other oil companies and thier insurance companies are already working on that seeing that the fine for this will probably top $10 million.

As far as the fine, the train that crashed and dumped the NaOH into Portage run and eventually the sinnemahoning, killing ALL aquatic life for aproxametly 22 miles of stream, was an accident due to no fault of the railroad.  The fine was 7.5 million and there were very little clean up costs compared to this spill.  In the end he who has the deepest pockets will pay.
 
In the end the FS is getting paid for the timber, the fact that they are not collecting site fees is strange.  As far as the water color in the reservoir I remember that dull green tinge being there every year since the early eighties.
 
I have no doubt that the runoff from the roads installed for logging, oil & gas etc are a huge contributor of sediment.  I am actually conducting a study within the watershed on it right now.
 
I am going to try and walk in and check out the site of the spill this weekend.  I want to know how far the tanks were from the stream.

http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/STONEMANGUITARS/waterpollution.html
 
This above page describes the water situation pretty good.
 
 
There has been residual excessive sediment build up the past two years or so.  Directly related to the drastically increased and unmonitored road building.
 
 

The cleanup continues. So far they have recovered approx. 19,000 gallons. Not even half of the estimated 45,000 gallons that spilled. Sad & expensive!!! As punishment, they should throw the Hortons into a vat of oil & let them die the kind of death that the wildlife did. There is no excuse for this type of enviornmental terrorism.

The problem is that while the Hortons will do the time, the snyder companies insurance will pay the fine.....

UPDATE!
 
As many of you might have expected, the "government", whether it be the state or federal government, has "officially" and I might add prematurely or arbitrarily ended the clean-up of Chappel Bay, the North Branch and Indian Run.
 
Some of us visited various spots along them this past weekend (Sept 27 & 28th) and found the same amount of oil in the booms and in "still pools", calm areas and eddys,  as we saw just a few days after the spill.  The amount at the "steel bridge" on the NCT, just off 321 near the headwaters of Chappel Bay had the same amount of oil behind the boom as we have seen in the past month or so we have been witnessing.  The clean-up tools are just strewn about in many places.
 
Even miles above at the headwaters of Indian Run, where one of the biggest and most accessible tank farms are located, there is still oil running into the creek.   There seems to be no interest or attempt to sop up the oil before it gets into Indian Run.
 
At various places between the headwaters of Indian Run, and where the North Fork runs into Chappel Bay, there are oily booms and rags laying about, on the ground, letting rain wash the oil back into the environment.
 
SOME, but not all the rags for sure, made it into a container parked along 321 just south of the Bradford Ranger Station and one might imagine that at one point it might be hauled away. And perhaps this is too much to ask for, but the contents may eventually be disposed of properly!  But judging how things are handled so far .....!!??!!
 
.... For example, the dumpster like container, sealed around the door with "spray on foam insulation" is continually leaking oil and sludge BACK onto the ground and into the environment!   This dumpster has a very rapid and steady flow of oil and such dripping out of it!
 
How long has it been since the spill?   Why has the clean-up been prematurely abandoned?  Are they just incredibly just letting the "rest" of the oil make it's way down Indian Run, the North Fork and into Chappel Bay and the Alleghey Reservoir?  REALLY?