Microbial community activities during establishment, performance, and decline of bench-scale passive treatment systems for mine drainage

Water Research

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 4537-4551

  Logan, Miranda V ^a   Reardon, Kenneth F ^b   Figueroa, Linda A ^a   McLain, Jean E T ^c   Ahmann, Dianne M ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c U S WATER CONSERVATION LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater treatment; Microbial community; Mine drainage; Permeable reactive barrier; Sulfate reduction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPOSITION; DRAINAGE; FERMENTATION; HYDROLYSIS; MINES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REDUCTION;

GROUNDWATER TREATMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINE DRAINAGE; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIER; SULFATE REDUCTION;

GROUNDWATER;

METAL; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTIVE BARRIER; SULFATE; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HYDROLYSIS; LAND DRAINAGE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROFLORA; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; TECHNOLOGY; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 27544516368     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2005.08.013     Document Type: Article

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