Determination of aquifer characteristics in spoil generated by mountaintop removal: Valley fill coal-mining process. Final report

The report relates to establishment of ground water monitoring networks in the mine spoil and a bedrock area at the Star Fire Site, Kentucky; measurement of hydraulic properties of spoil and different lithologic materials and collection of water-level and water-quality information. Increased efforts are focused on continuing the ground water monitoring program and to develop more surface water monitoring stations that will compliment the ground water data, and develop a hydrologic balance for the site and predict future water quality.