An Ecotoxicological Assessment of a Treated Coal-mining Effluent in the Leading Creek Watershed, Meigs County, Ohio

The majority of research studying the ecological impacts of the coal mining industry on freshwater systems has focused on abandoned-mined land, and the associated acid drainage and metals toxicity. Treated discharges from active mining and preparation facilities, however, can also impair lotic ecos...

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Main Author: Kennedy, Alan James
Other Authors: Biology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36291
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12192002-175616/