First Name:
Kimberly
Last Name:
Noel
Major Department:
Department of Chemistry
Thesis Director:
Carol Babyak
Date of Thesis:
May 2015
Water was sampled upstream and downstream of coal refuse areas at Big Stony Creek, Cove Creek, and Shupe Creek in Scott Co., Virginia to determine if coal waste acid mine drainage (AMD) had an impact on water quality before, during, and after a reclamation project removed the refuse material and relocated it to a disposal site. Samples were tested for Cl- and SO42- using ion chromatography (IC), and Al, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, Se, and Zn using inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES).