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Kleinmann, R.L.P. |
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Acid Mine Water Treatment using Engineered Wetlands |
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wetlands AMD passive treatment pollution control water treatment abandoned mines biological treatment pH bacterial oxidation wetland sizing sphagnum |
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400 systems installed within 4 years During the last two decades, the United States mining industry has greatly increased the amount it spends on pollution control. The application of biotechnology to mine water can reduce the industry's water treatment costs (estimated at over a million dollars a day) and improve water quality in streams and rivers adversely affected by acidic mine water draining from abandoned mines. Biological treatment of mine waste water is typically conducted in a series of small excavated ponds that resemble, in a superficial way, a small marsh area. The ponds are engineered to first facilitate bacterial oxidation of iron; ideally, the water then flows through a composted organic substrate that supports a population of sulfate-reducing bacteria. The latter process raises the pH. During the past four years, over 400 wetland water treatment systems have been built on mined lands as a result of research by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. In general, mine operators find that the wetlands reduce chemical treatment costs enough to repay the cost of wetland construction in less than a year. Actual rates of iron removal at field sites have been used to develop empirical sizing criteria based on iron loading and pH. If the pH is 6 or above, the wetland area (in2) required is equivalent to the iron. load (grams/day) divided by 10. Theis requirement doubles at a pH of 4 to 5. At a pH below 4, the iron load (grams/day) should be divided by 2 to estimate the area required (in2). |
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Acid Mine Water Treatment using Engineered Wetlands; 1; Fg; AMD ISI | Wolkersdorfer |
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King, T.V.V. |
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Environmental considerations of active and abandoned mine lands: lessons from Summitville, Colorado |
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acid mine drainage mining environmental effect remediation environmental assessment USA Colorado Summitville 1 Geography |
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Extreme acid-rock drainage is the dominant long-term environmental concern at the Summitville mine and could have been predicted given the geological characteristics of the deposit. Extensive remedial efforts are required to isolate both unweathered sulfides and soluble metal salts in the open-pit area and mine-waste piles from weathering and dissolution. Results of studies as of late 1993 indicate that mining at Summitville has had no discernible short-term adverse effects on barley or alfalfa crops irrigated with Alamosa River water. Remediation of the site will help to ensure that no adverse effects occur over the longer term. -from Editor |
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Environmental considerations of active and abandoned mine lands: lessons from Summitville, Colorado; (1119406); 95j-11521; Using Smart Source Parsing pp; Geobase |
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Johnson, D.B.; Hallberg, K.B. |
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Pitfalls of passive mine water treatment |
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acid mine drainage acidophilic microorganisms heavy metals iron oxidation iron reduction remediation sulfate reduction wetlands Wheal Jane |
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Passive (wetland) treatment of waters draining abandoned and derelict mine sites has a number of detrac-tions. Detailed knowledge of many of the fundamental processes that dictate the performance and longevity of constructed systems is currently very limited and therefore more research effort is needed before passive treatment becomes an “off-the-shelf” technology. |
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Dec.; Pitfalls of passive mine water treatment; 2; FG als Datei vorhanden 4 Abb., 1 Tab.; VORHANDEN | AMD ISI | Wolkersdorfer |
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Jarvis, A.P.; Younger, P.L. |
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Design, construction and performance of a full-scare compost wetland for mine-spoil drainage treatment at quaking houses |
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Wetlands and estuaries geographical abstracts: physical geography hydrology (71 6 8) composting constructed wetland design performance assessment United Kingdom EnglandCounty Durham |
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Acidic spoil-heap drainage, containing elevated concentrations of iron, aluminium and manganese, has been polluting the Stanley Burn in County Durham for nearly two decades. Following the success of a pilot-scale wetland (the first application of its kind in Europe), a full-scale wetland was installed. Waste manures and composts have been used as the main substrate which is contained within embankments constructed from compacted pulverized fuel ash. The constructed wetland, which cost less than £20,000 to build, has consistently reduced iron and aluminium concentrations and has markedly lowered the acidity of the drainage. A third phase of activities at the site aims to identify and eliminate pollutant-release 'hot spots' within the spoil. |
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Design, construction and performance of a full-scare compost wetland for mine-spoil drainage treatment at quaking houses; 2227678; United-Kingdom 9; Geobase |
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Jage, C.R.; Zipper, C.E. |
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Acid-mine drainage treatment using successive alkalinity-producing systems |
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acid mine drainage; alkalinity; Appalachians; carbonate rocks; decontamination; dissolved materials; dissolved oxygen; limestone; North America; oxygen; pH; pollution; reclamation; sedimentary rocks; United States; Virginia; waste management; water treatment 22, Environmental geology |
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Powell River Project research and education program reports |
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Acid-mine drainage treatment using successive alkalinity-producing systems; 2002-029549; GeoRef; English; References: 12; illus. incl. 2 tables U. S. Geological Survey, Library, Reston, VA, United States |
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