Welcome to the EPCAMR Homepage!
Mission Statement: “The general purpose of the organization [EPCAMR] is to encourage the reclamation and redevelopment of land affected by past mining practices. This includes reducing hazards to health and safety, eliminating soil erosion, improving water quality, [and] returning land affected by past mining practices to productive use, thereby improving the economy of the region.” -from the Preamble of the EPCAMR Bylaws.
Incorporation Date: January 15, 1997

PA Watersheds Summit: Advocate, Communicate, Transform!
April 5 & 6, 2013- Nittany Lion Inn, State College, PA Can a state have a more valuable asset than copious amounts of clean water? Pennsylvania is fortunate in its miles and miles of rivers, streams and creeks and its many individuals and groups who are clean water watchdogs. Members of…
EPCAMR Makes Borrowing Fishing Tackle as Easy as Borrowing a Library Book!
Now that today has officially begun the first day of Spring 2013, regardless of the snow on the ground, EPCAMR has become a regional sponsor in Luzerne County of a new Program administered by the PA Fish & Boat Commission. We our officially a loaner site for the PA Fish…
EPCAMR is a non-profit, non-government, non-partisan public charity dedicated to:
- Reducing health and safety hazards, eliminating soil erosion, improving water quality and endorsing the reclamation of abandoned mine lands to productive uses in the region, there by improving the economy.
- Promoting the spirit of cooperation among all parties with an interest in resolving abandoned mine drainage / abandoned mine land problems
- Serving as a liaison among the various governmental agencies (federal, state, and local), watershed associations, industry, and conservationists with a common goal of abandoned mine reclamation
- Encouraging the remining and reclamation of lands, streams, and resources impacted by mining
- Educating, informing, and involving the public with mine drainage and mine reclamation issues
- Seeking and acquiring available sources of funding for restoration, reclamation, education and assessment projects
- Providing assistance in developing watershed associations and coalitions interested in abandoned mine reclamation issues