Concentration-discharge regression parameters in watersheds of varying lithology subjected to surface coal mining and reclamation

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 86-101

  Bonta, J V ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP; Duration curves; Mine spoil; Overburden; Strip mining; TMDL; Water quality

Indexed keywords

COAL MINE; LAND RECLAMATION; MINE WASTE; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 1942444569     PISSN: 00224561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Amerman, C.R., J.V. Bonta, T.J. Harlukowicz, G.F. Hall, N.E. Smeck, W.A. Dick, F. Haghiri, J.O. Helgesen, A.C. Razem, and W.R. Hamon. 1982. Impact of surface mining and reclamation upon hydrology and water quality of two small watersheds in Ohio. Pp. 45-56. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Surface Mining Hydrology, Sedimentology and Reclamation. University of Kentucky, Lexington, December 5-10.
2. Bonta, J.V. 2000. Impact of coal surface mining and reclamation on suspended sediment in three Ohio watersheds. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 36(4):869-887.
3. Bonta, J.V. 2003. Changes in concentration-discharge regression parameters due to coal mining and reclamation activities. Submitted to Hydrological Sciences Journal (Not Yet Accepted).
4. Bonta, J.V., C.R. Amerman, W.A. Dick, F.A. Haghiri, G.F. Hall, W.A. Hamon, T.J. Harlukowicz, A.C. Razem, and N.E. Smeck. 1992a. Impact of coal surface mining on hydrology and water quality of three Ohio watersheds: Physical conditions and ground-water hydrology. Water Resources Bulletin 28(3):577-596.
5. Bonta, J.V., C.R. Amerman, W.A. Dick, T.J. Harlukowicz, and A.C. Razem. 1992b. Impact of surface coal mining on three Ohio watersheds: Ground-water chemistry. Water Resources Bulletin 28(3):597-614.
6. Bonta, J.V., C.R. Amerman, T.J. Harlukowicz, and W.A. Dick. 1997. Impact of coal surface mining on three Ohio watersheds: Surface-water hydrology. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 33(4):907-917.
7. Bonta, J.V. and B. Cleland. 2003. Incorporating natural variability, uncertainty, and risk into water-quality evaluations using duration curves. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 39(6):1481-1496.
8. Bonta, J.V. and W.A. Dick. 2003. Impact of coal surface mining and reclamation on surface-water-chemical concentrations and load rates in three Ohio watersheds. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 39(4):793-815.
9. Bonta, J.V. and W.R. Hamon. 1980. Preliminary evaluation of a sediment pond draining a surface mined watershed. Pp. 371-381. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Surface Mining Hydrology, Sedimentology and Reclamation. University of Kentucky, Lexington. December 1-5. OES Publications. Lexington, Kentucky.
10. Bonta, J.V. and P. Sutton. 1983. Erosion and reclamation plots: Research on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds subjected to surface mining. U.S. Bureau of Mines Contract Report. 60 pp.
11. Bonta, J.V., T.A. Van Echo, and V.T. Ricca. 1991. Erosion and runoff control using bulldozer imprints on surface-mine spoil. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers 34(1):97-105.
12. Brakensiek, D.L., H.B. Osborn, and W.J. Rawls. 1979. Field manual for research in agricultural hydrology. Agriculture Handbook No. 224. U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. 547 pp.
13. Collier, C.R., R.J. Pickering, and J.J. Musser. 1970. Influences of strip mining on the hydrologic environment of parts of Beaver Creek Basin, Kentucky, 1955-66. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Professional Paper 427-C, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 80 pp.
14. Collier, C.R., G.W. Whetstone, and J.J. Musser. 1964. Influences of strip mining on the hydrologic environment of parts of Beaver Creek Basin, Kentucky, 1955-59. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Professional Paper 427-B, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 85 pp.
15. Curtis, W.R. 1971. Strip-mining, erosion and sedimentation. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers 14(3):434-436.
16. Curtis, W.R. 1974. Sediment yield from strip-mined watersheds in eastern Kentucky. Pp. 88-100. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Research and Applied Technology Symposium on Mined-Land Reclamation, Coal and the Environment Technical Conference, Oct. 22-24. Louisville, Kentucky.
17. Dick, W.A., J.V. Bonta, and F. Hagriri. 1986. Chemical quality of suspended sediment from watersheds subjected to surface coal mining. Journal of Environmental Quality 15(3):289-293.
18. Dick, W.A., J.V. Bonta, F. Haghiri, and J.R. Page. 1983. Stream water quality of two small watersheds as affected by surface coal mining. Journal of Environmental Quality 12(3):351-358.
19. Dyer, K.L. and W.R. Curtis. 1977. Effect of strip mining on water quality in small streams in eastern Kentucky, 1967-1975. Northeast Forest Experiment Station, Upper Darby, PA. U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service Research Paper NE-372. 13 pp.
20. Grubb, H.F. and P.D. Ryder. 1972. Effects of coal mining on the water resources of the Tradewater River Basin, Kentucky. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 1940, U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. 83 pp.
21. Johnson, C.W., A.D. Copp, and E.R. Tinney. 1966. Drop-box weir for sediment-laden flow measurements. American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of the Hydraulics Division, 95 (HY5):165-190.
22. Lewis, W.M. and M.C. Grant. 1979. Relations between stream discharge and yield of dissolved substances from a Colorado mountain watershed. Soil Science Society of America Journal 128:353-363.
23. Musser, J.J. 1963. Description of physical environment and of strip-mining operations in parts of Beaver Creek Basin, Kentucky. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Professional Paper 427-A, U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. 25 pp.
24. Upham, G.A. 1975. A study of trace metals found in sediment in a stream before and during strip mining of coal in the Cumberland Plateau of eastern Tennessee. M.S. Thesis. University of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee.
25. U.S. Bureau of Mines. 1978. Research on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds subjected to surface mining. Phase 1: Premining hydrologic and water quality conditions. U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 88-80. 347 pp.
26. U.S. Bureau of Mines. 1982a. Research on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds subjected to surface mining. Phase 2: Hydrologic and water quality conditions during mining and reclamation in a small watershed in Coshocton County, Ohio. U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report. 130 pp.
27. U.S. Bureau of Mines. 1982b. Research on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds subjected to surface mining. Phase 2: Hydrologic and water quality conditions during mining and reclamation in a small watershed in Muskingum County, Ohio. U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report. 138 pp.
28. U.S. Bureau of Mines. 1983a. Research on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds subjected to surface mining. Phase 3: Hydrologic and water quality conditions after reclamation in a small, mined watershed, Muskingum County, Ohio. U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report. 196 pp.
29. U.S. Bureau of Mines. 1983b. Research on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds subjected to surface mining. Phase 3: Hydrologic and water quality conditions after reclamation in a small, mined watershed, Coshocton County, Ohio. U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 39-84, NTIS #PB 84-165893. 177 pp.
30. U.S. Bureau of Mines. 1983c. Research on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds subjected to surface mining: Hydrologic and water quality conditions prior to and during mining and reclamation in a small watershed, Jefferson County, Ohio. U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 209-84, NTIS #PB 85-149276. 177 pp.
31. U.S. Bureau of Mines. 1984. Final Report: Research on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds subjected to surface mining. U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report. 35 pp.