WEST VIRGINIA MINE DRAINAGE TASK FORCE SYMPOSIUM

Ramada Inn, Morgantown, West Virginia
March 27 – 28, 2012

Sponsored by
West Virginia Mine Drainage Task Force
and
WV Coal Association

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

Registration

8:30 - 8:35 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:35 - 9:00 a.m.

"Status of West Virginia Mining and Reclamation"

Randy Huffman, Tom Clarke, and Lewis Halstead
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

"OSM Update on Mining, Reclamation, and AMD"

Joe Pizarchik, Tom Shope, and Roger Calhoun
Office of Surface Mining

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

"The Appalachian Research Initiative on Environmental Science (ARIES): A New Paradigm"

John Craynon and Michael Karmis
Virginia Tech

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

"Narrative Water Quality Standards"

Jason Bostic
West Virginia Coal Association

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.

"TDS Evolution from Valley Fills at Coal Mac"

Terry Potter and John McDaniel
Arch - Coal Mac

11:30 - 12:00 a.m.

"Surface Mine Hydrology and Selenium Treatment"

Al Meek, Keith O’Dell, and Ben Faulkner
Arch – Birch River

noon - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 - 1:35 p.m.

Regroup

1:35 - 2:00 p.m.

"2011-12 Legislative Issues on Mining, Reclamation and Water Quality"

Jason Bostic
West Virginia Coal Association

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.

"Natural Selenium Attenuation at the Lab, Outlet, and Watershed Scales"

Paul Ziemkiewicz
West Virginia University

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.

"Passive Removal of Total Aluminum – Field Demonstration”

Ray Lovett
Shipshaper LLC

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

"Hydrologic Impacts of Multiple Seam Underground and Surface Mining”

Jay Hawkins
Office of Surface Mining

4:00 - 4:30 p.m.

"Simulating Interbasin Transfer in Abandoned Coal Mines”

Kurt McCoy and Mark Kozar
U.S. Geological Survey

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

"Site-Specific Chronic Selenium Aquatic Life Criterion for a Coal-fired Power Plant Discharge to the Ohio River"

Rob Reash
American Electric Power

5:00 - 7:30 p.m.

RECEPTION AND POSTER SESSION
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

8:00 – 8:30 a.m.

Registration

8:25 - 8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Remarks

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

"Priority Pollutants in Untreated and Treated Drainage from Coal Mines in Pennsylvania"

Chuck Cravotta
U.S. Geological Survey

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

"Special Reclamation Capital Costs for Passive Treatments”

Brady Gutta and Bruce Leavitt
West Virginia University

9:30 - 10:00 a.m.

"Air Lift Mixing to Improve Calcium Oxide Dissolution”

Bruce Leavitt, Tim Danehy, and Bryan Page
Consulting Hydrogeologist

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

"Pumpable pHoam™: A New Method for Mitigating ARD”

Jim Gusek
Golder Associates

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.

"Selenium Treatment by BioRemedial Technologies"

Tyler Perry
BioRemedial Technologies

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon

"Treatment of Flowback – Marcellus Shale”

Mark Galimberti
VSep – New Logic Research

12:00 Noon

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