2023年10月11日 · Back in 2014, aerial photographer Michael Hess sent his drone skyward over an abandoned rock quarry and found something incredible - and unexpected - submerged beneath the surface. Although the waters look calm and blue from eye level, from above, you can clearly see three large pieces of construction equipment, drowned and nearly forgotten. One...

As of February 2018, the Texas Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program has reclaimed 2,768 acres of abandoned surface mines and closed 426 dangerous abandoned underground mine openings at a construction cost of approximately $47M. Historical Coal Mining in Texas; Download Texas AML Completed Projects PDF

2022年5月5日 · Fully rehabilitating mining sites requires replacing soil, preventing pollutants from inhibiting plant growth, correcting the flow of water into and out of a quarry, and reversing species loss...

FIELD TRIP STOP – A CRETACEOUS OFFSHORE BAR IN CENTRAL TEXAS. LOCATION: The abandoned Whitestone Quarry just north of Road 1431 near the Williamson – Travis County line, three miles west of Whitestone. GEOLOGIC FEATURES: Offshore Bar; Shoreface; Oolites; Crossbedding; Regression.

The quarry was abandoned about 1904 or 1905. Below are three buildings in Honey Grove built with stone from the Floyd Quarry. In 2021 the quarry was briefly reopened to obtain stone for the renovation of the Fannin County Courthouse.

2022年5月5日 · Bill Langer, a geologist and quarry reclamation consultant who worked for more than four decades with the U.S. Geological Survey, says years of blasting can fracture underground caverns, rerouting natural water systems and displacing local species.

Ninety miles north of Six Flags, along a rural road in Burnet County, the neighbors of an abandoned quarry site are left with the dismal reminder of its demise: a barren, dust- and dirt-covered moonscape dotted with rusted and long forgotten equipment. In Texas, either of those scenes could mark the ending of a quarry’s useful life.

2025年2月4日 · In Pecos County, the 60-acre Lake Boehmer formed when an abandoned well began releasing large amounts of salty brine water to the surface more than two decades ago — and it’s still leaking.

5 天之前 · The RRC’s Abandoned Mine Land (AML) program recently completed a project restoring land that was at an abandoned mine site in Rockdale, about 50 miles east of Austin. The extensive work over the course of a couple of months involved earthwork, erosion control, repairing more than 450 sinkholes, and revegetation.

4 天之前 · In 2023, Texas lawmakers attempted to address the growing problem of abandoned wells. Two years later, none of that money has been distributed.