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The Recovery of an AMD-impacted Stream Treated by Steel Slag Leach Beds: A Case Study in the East Branch of Raccoon Creek, Ohio

Hawkins, Caleb M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429784673

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2015, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Environmental Studies (Voinovich).
Coal mining is disruptive to ecosystems and causes both chemical and physical changes in the local environment that alter water chemistry, habitat quality, and aquatic biota. The East Branch of Raccoon Creek, Ohio is highly impacted by preregulation coal mining and contains 10 steel slag leach beds that passively treat low pH, Fe and Al-rich waters. Water chemistry, sediment chemistry, aquatic macroinvertebrate richness and diversity, habitat quality, and stream gradient were examined along the mainstem and a headwater tributary. Gradient showed no significant relationship with sediment quality. Higher flows increased instream concentrations of Fe and increased the portion of suspended Fe in the water column. Macroinvertebrate richness and diversity varies from good to very poor and is negatively correlated with sediment As, Cu, Fe and Mn, and multiple water quality parameters such as specific conductivity (µS/cm), pH, and TDS (mg/L).
Natalie Kruse, Dr. (Advisor)
Kelly Johnson, Dr. (Committee Member)
Dina Lopez, Dr. (Committee Member)
78 p.
Entomology; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Geology; Environmental Science; Freshwater Ecology; Geochemistry; Geology; Geomorphology; Mining
acid mine drainage; ecosystem restoration; geochemistry; sediment chemistry; benthic macroinvertebrates; steel slag leach beds; passive treatment; MAIS; Raccoon Creek; remediation; geomorphology; zones of deposition; grain size; metal toxicity;

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  • Hawkins, C. M. (2015). The Recovery of an AMD-impacted Stream Treated by Steel Slag Leach Beds: A Case Study in the East Branch of Raccoon Creek, Ohio [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429784673

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hawkins, Caleb. The Recovery of an AMD-impacted Stream Treated by Steel Slag Leach Beds: A Case Study in the East Branch of Raccoon Creek, Ohio. 2015. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429784673.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hawkins, Caleb. "The Recovery of an AMD-impacted Stream Treated by Steel Slag Leach Beds: A Case Study in the East Branch of Raccoon Creek, Ohio." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429784673

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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