Development of a dewatering system for controlling fracture dominated inflow for acid mine drainage abatement.

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• Personal Author:
  Ahnell G ; Buss DR ; Cohen RM ; Parizek RR
• Description:
  A mine dewatering strategy utilizing fracture sited wells drilled from the surface above a historically wet underground coal mine in Preston County, West Virginia, successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of such a strategy to reduce mine water inflows and increase mine productivity through improved working conditions. The strategy has the potential to be cost effective by greatly reducing the total volume of water likely to enter the mine workings and require costly handling and treatment while minimizing the impact on shallower domestic water supplies. This report outlines five site-independent prerequisites for a cost-effective mine dewatering approach. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Mining-industry; Coal-mining; Underground-mining; Coal-processing; Work-environment
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Open File Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Final Contract Report
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  TCRC - Twin Cities Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-210
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10003551
• Citation:
  For Reference Only At Bureau Libraries 1983; :1-210
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Performing Organization:
  Skelly and Loy
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/245064/cdc_245064_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]