A statistical approach to evaluate the relation of coal mining, land reclamation, and surface-water quality in Ohio

Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4117
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Abstract

Base-flow data from 779 sites in Ohio 's coal region were analyzed statistically to relate land use to selected water-quality characteristics. Sites were classified into five categories: unmined (100 percent unmined land), abandoned (50 percent or more abandoned surface mines), reclaimed (50 percent or more reclaimed surface mines), deep-mined (50 percent or more underground mines), and mixed (all others). Specific conductance , pH, alkalinity, acidity, sulfate, dissolved iron, total iron, and total manganese in streams draining basins in the coal region were the eight characteristics selected for analysis. (USGS)
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title A statistical approach to evaluate the relation of coal mining, land reclamation, and surface-water quality in Ohio
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 84-4117
DOI 10.3133/wri844117
Edition -
Year Published 1984
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Description iv, 325 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.
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