Carnegie Mellon University
Evaluation
of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine
Discharges for Watershed Restoration
Sponsor:
Principal Investigator: David A. Dzombak,
Ph.D., P.E.,
Project Period:
Project
Publications and Presentations
Journal Papers
Lambert, D.C., McDonough, K.M., and Dzombak, D.A. (2004), “Long-Term Changes in Quality of Discharge Water from Abandoned Underground Coal Mines in Uniontown Syncline, Fayette County, PA, USA”, Water Research, 38:277-288.
McDonough, K.M., Lambert, D.C., Mugunthan, P., and Dzombak, D.A. (2005), “Processes Governing Flow and Chemical Characteristics of Discharges from Free-Draining, Underground Coal Mines,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, 131(10):1361-1368.
McDonough, K.M., Lambert, D.C., Mugunthan, P., and Dzombak, D.A. (2005), “Hydrologic and Geochemical Factors Governing Chemical Evolution of Discharges from an Abandoned, Flooded Underground Coal Mine Network,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, 131(4):643-649.
Mugunthan, P., McDonough, K.M., and Dzombak, D.A. (2004), “Geochemical Approach to Estimate the Quality of Water Entering Abandoned Underground Coal Mines,” Environmental Geology, 45:769-780.
Paschka, M.G. and Dzombak, D.A. (2004), “Use of Dissolved Sulfur Species to Measure Pyrite Dissolution in Water at pH 3 and 6,” Environmental Engineering Science, 21:411-420.
Conference Papers
McDonough, K.M., Dzombak, D.A., Lambert, D.C., and Mugunthan, P. (2002), “Natural Amelioration of Acid Mine Drainage from Abandoned Coal Mines in Southwestern Pennsylvania,” in Proceedings of the Surface Water Quality and Ecology Symposium, WEFTEC 2002, Water Environment Federation, Alexandria, VA.
Dzombak, D.A., Lambert, D.C., Paschka, M.G., Kim, E., and Aljoe,
W.W. (2000), “Redox Processes and Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine
Discharges,” in Proceedings of the
Environmental Chemistry Division, 220th ACS National Meeting, American
Chemical Society,
Lambert, D.C., Dzombak, D.A., and Aljoe, W.W. (2000), “Evaluation of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges in the Uniontown Syncline, PA,” in Proceedings of the 21st West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage Task Force Symposium, West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage Task Force and West Virginia Mining and Reclamation Association, Morgantown, WV, pp. 129-138.
Lambert, D.C., Dzombak, D.A., and Aljoe, W.W. (1999), “Evaluation of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges in Western Pennsylvania,” in Proceedings 16th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Theses
Paschka, M.G. (2001), “Kinetics of Pyrite Oxidation,” M.S.
Thesis,
Mugunthan, P. (2001), “Geochemical Approach to Estimate the
Quality of Water Entering Abandoned Underground Coal Mines,” M.S. Thesis,
Lambert, D.C. (2000), “Development of Steady State and Time-Varying Hydraulic Models of Flow Through Flooded and Unflooded Abandoned Underground Coal Mines for the Evaluation of Long-Term Water Quality Improvements,” M.S. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Kim, E. (1999), “Modeling of Water Quality Evolution During Pyrite Oxidation,” M.S. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Presentations
Dzombak, D.A., “Longevity of Acid Mine Drainage from
Abandoned Coal Mines,” presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the Society
of Environmental Journalists,
Dzombak, D.A., “Long-Term Changes
in the Quality of Discharges from Abandoned Underground Coal Mines in the
Dzombak, D.A., “Natural Amelioration of Acid Mine Drainage from Abandoned Coal Mines in the Uniontown Syncline, Southwestern Pennsylvania,” presented at the US EPA Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Research, Washington, D.C., November, 2001 (invited talk); at the University of Sheffield (UK), Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Seminar, November, 2001 (invited talk); and at Yale University, Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar, April, 2002 (invited talk).
Dzombak, D.A., “Evaluation of Long Term Changes in the Quality of Discharges from Abandoned Underground Coal Mines in the Uniontown Syncline,” presented at the Ninth Annual Monastery Run Project Symposium, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, November, 2001 (invited talk); and at the Air and Waste Management Association, Allegheny Mountain Section meeting, December, 2001 (invited talk).
Lambert, D.C., “Redox Processes and Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges,” presented at the 220th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Environmental Chemistry Division Symposium, Washington, D.C., August, 2000.
Dzombak, D.A., “Evaluation of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges in the Uniontown Syncline, PA,” presented at the 21st West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage Task Force Symposium, West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage Task Force and West Virginia Mining and Reclamation Association, Morgantown, WV, April, 2000 (invited talk).
Dzombak, D.A. “Evaluation of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges for Watershed Restoration,” presented at the Appalachian Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, April, 2000 (invited talk).
Lambert, D.C., “Evaluation of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges in Western Pennsylvania,” presented at the Sixteenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 1999.
Dzombak, D.A. “Evaluation of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges for Watershed Restoration,” Sixth Annual Monastery Run Project Symposium, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, November, 1998.
Dzombak, D.A. “Evaluation of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges for Watershed Restoration,” Joint Program Review Meeting on Ecological Restoration, US EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Ada, OK, March, 1998.
Reports
Dzombak, D.A., McDonough, K.M., Lambert, D.C., and Mugunthan, P. (2001), “Evaluation of Natural Amelioration of Acidic Deep Mine Discharges for Watershed Restoration,” Final report submitted to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Research, Washington, D.C.
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