Peabody Coal Company received the 2001 Kentucky Commissioner’s Award from the Department for Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement for the outstanding reclamation work performed on their Ken Mine surface mining complex located near the community of Rockport in western Ohio County. The complex has been in operation for approximately 50 years. The company successfully established a post mining land use of fish and wildlife habitat and the site presently supports large populations of deer, turkey, and waterfowl. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources has worked closely with Peabody on this site and more than a dozen permanent ponds have been stocked with bass, bluegill and catfish. This is the first of Peabody’s western Kentucky mine sites to use substantial amounts of native and western grasses in their seeding mixtures, and the company has also planted more than 200,000 trees and shrubs throughout the permit area as a source of food and shelter for wildlife.

Peabody Coal’s Ken Mine