2008 West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage
Task Force Symposium Papers
30th Anniversary of the Formation of the Task Force
Ramada Inn, Morgantown, West Virginia
April 22-23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Status of West Virginia Mining and Reclamation [.pdf 3.8mb]
Randy Huffman and Lewis Halstead
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
Charleston, WV
OSM Update on Mining, Reclamation, and AMD
Brent Wahlquist and Tom Shope
Office of Surface Mining
Washington, DC
The 30th Anniversary of the Formation of the West Virginia Mine Drainage Task Force: A Historical Perspective [.doc 1.2mb] [.pdf 11mb]
Jeff Skousen, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Wayne Stanley, Stanley Industries, Bridgeport, WV
Water Quality and Acid Mine Drainage in West Virginia [.doc 26kb] [.ppt 14mb]
Pat Campbell
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
Charleston, WV
History and Status of Mining Underground Injection Control by WVDEP [.doc 46k]
Pavanne Pettigrew
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
Charleston, WV
Overview of Stream Mitigation Program and Examples [.doc 535kb] [.ppt 222kb]
Dennis Stottlemyer
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
Charleston, WV
2008 Legislative Issues on Mining, Reclamation, and Water Quality [.doc 403kb]
Jason Bostic
West Virginia Coal Association
Charleston, WV
Effect of Alkaline Fills on AMD Control [Map .pdf 174 kb] [.doc 103 kb] [.pdf 3.1mb]
Thomas Cook
Massey Coal Services
Charleston, WV
AML Reauthorization and WV’s Strategy for Stream Restoration [.ppt 8mb] [.doc 75kb]
Paul Ziemkiewicz
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Duration of Acid Mine Drainage from Above-Drainage Underground Mines in Northern West Virginia [.ppt 6mb] [.doc 133kb]
Ben Mack and Jeff Skousen
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Modeling AMD Geochemistry in Flooded Underground Mines [.ppt 1.4mb] [.doc 1.6mb]
Bruce Leavitt
Leavitt Consulting Hydrologists
Washington, PA
Innovative Mine Water Management Techniques for Submarine Coal Mines of the Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia [.ppt 11mb] [.pdf 1mb]
Joe Shea
Cape Breton Development Corp.
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Selenium Distributions in Kanawha Formation Rocks from Boone County, WV [.ppt 1.2mb] [.doc 29kb]
Dorothy Vesper
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Selenium Bioaccumulation in Selected Stream and Lake Fishes of West Virginia [.ppt 18mb] [.doc 29kb]
Ben Lowman
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
Charleston, WV
Past, Present and Future for Treating Selenium-Impacted Water [.ppt 2.4mb] [.pdf 217kb]
Kevin Conroy and Jim Gusek
Golder Associates
Lakewood, CO
Selenium Removal from Mine Water – A Field Trial [.ppt 3.8mb] [.doc 28kb]
Ray Lovett
WV Water Research Institute
Morgantown, WV
Limestone-Based Passive Treatment of an AMD-Impacted Watershed - Rock Creek, Kentucky [.pdf 15mb] [.doc 3.4mb]
Mark Meade and Mark Carew
Kentucky Abandoned Mine Land
Frankfort, KY
Low-pH Fe(II) Oxidation Incorporated into Passive Treatment [.ppt 16mb] [.doc 5mb]
Bill Burgos
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Recovery of Deckers Creek from Acid Mine Drainage: Causes and Dependability [.pdf 5mb] [.doc 27kb]
Martin Christ
Friends of Deckers Creek
Morgantown, WV