Staunton 1 Reclamation Demonstration Project. Progress report for 1977

Technical Report · Fri Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6379246· OSTI ID:6379246

The Staunton 1 Reclamation Demonstration Project involves an evaluation of the reclamation process for a deep coal mine refuse system. A typical abandoned midwestern deep coal mine refuse site was selected, final land use was determined, baseline data were collected, engineering plans were developed and implemented, and a post-construction evaluation was begun. The project is a cooperative effort by two state agencies--the Abandoned Mined Land Reclamation Council of Illinois the Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality--and the U.S. Department of Energy through the Land Reclamation Program at Argonne National Laboratory. Current investigations are monitoring groundwater, surface water quality, aquatic ecosystems, revegetation, soil characteristics, erosion and runoff, soil microbial and soil fauna populations, wildlife, and economic effects of the reclamation effort. The research is a multidisciplinary approach to the concept of ecosystem response to reclamation.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6379246
• Report Number(s): ANL/LRP-TM--14
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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