Ground-water simulations for the determination of postmining recharge rates at the Belle Ayr Mine

Mining Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 80-83

  Davis, A D ^a,b   Zabolotney, G A ^c  

^a SME ^*

^b SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Omni Environmental   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAND RECLAMATION; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

POST MINING RECHARGE; PREMINING RATE;

COAL MINES;

GROUNDWATER; INFILTRATION; RECHARGE; SIMULATION;

FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; POSTMINING RECHARGE; RECHARGE RATE;

USA, WYOMING, POWER RIVER BASIN, BELLE AYR MINE;

EID: 0030292190     PISSN: 00265187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. AMAX Coal Company, 1985, Belle Ayr Mine, Belle Ayr Permit Document 214-T2 Renewal, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Cheyenne, WY.
2. Davis, R.W., 1975, Results of a Hydrological Investigation of AMAX's Belle Ayr Mine and Vicinity Near Gillette, Wyoming, Water Resources Research Institute, Series No. 57,35 pp.
3. Davis, R.W., and Rechard, P.A., 1977, Effects of Surface Mining upon Shallow Aquifers in the Eastern Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Water Resources Research Institute, Series No. 67,36 pp.
4. Konikow, L.F., and Bredehoeft, J.D., 1978, "Computer model of two-dimensional solute transport and dispersion in ground water," US Geological Survey Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, Book C2, Chap. 7, 90 pp.
5. Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Land Quality Division, 1989, Rules and Regulations, Section 3-f (iii), Cheyenne, WY, p. 73.
6. Zabolotney, G.A., 1993, "A Two-Dimensional Ground-Water Flow Model to Determine the Post-Mining Recharge Rate at the Belle Ayr Mine, Campbell County, Wyoming," M.S. thesis, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, 117 pp.