Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1.1 Watersheds -- Water Quality and Appalachian Mining: Analysis of Watershed‑Based Conclusions -- A Value of Information Study Examining the Effectiveness of Spatial Datasets for Modeling Landscape to Water Quality Relationships -- Water Quality Permitting Under Managed Discharge -- Scenario Analysis and the Watershed Futures Planner: Predicting Future Aquatic Conditions in an Intensively Mined Appalachian Watershed -- The Mine Land Stewardship Initiative -- 2.1 Environmental Considerations in Coal Preparation and Waste Management -- Application of Electronic Sorting Technology for Reducing Environmental Impacts of Coal Processing -- Stabilization of Fine Coal Waste as an Alternative Disposal Technique -- Application of a Pilot-Scale Plate Filter Press in Dewatering Coal Slurries -- Diesel Range Organics In Coal Preparation -- Minimizing the Environmental Impacts of Coal Waste Disposal -- 2.2 Community Well-Being -- Decision Tools for Integrating Sustainability Considerations in Large Capital Projects -- The Mining Industry and Community Poverty Across Appalachia -- Edgework and Boundary Crossings: Assessing Foundations for Public Ecology in the Appalachian Region -- Determinants of Local Community Acceptance of Energy Resources and Materials Mining -- Ethics and Community Well-Being -- 3.1 Coal, Gas, and Energy Production -- Appalachian Coal: Past, Present, and Future -- Environmental Considerations and Operational Parameters of Underground Coal Gasification -- The Marcellus Shale Gas Play and the Gas Migration/Stray Gas Problem -- Experiences in Reservoir Model Calibration for Coal Bed Methane Production in Deep Coal Seams in Russell County, Virginia -- Sustainable Degasification Strategies: A Case Study in the Qinshui Basin of China -- 3.2 Public Health and Energy Production.

Evaluation of Research Addressing Chronic Health in Coal‑Dependent Communities in Central Appalachia -- Comparison of Mortality Rates Between Appalachian Coal Mining Counties with Non-Coal Mining -- Population and Exposure Characteristics of Coal Mining and Non-Coal Mining Counties in West Virginia -- Inventory of Bacterial Impairments in Central Appalachia -- Identification of Toxic Agents and Potential Exposure Routes to Appalachian Coal Mining Communities -- 4.1 Total Dissolved Solids and Environmental Impacts -- Comparison of Groundwater Seepage Modeling in Conventional and Geomorphic Valley Fill Design -- Predicting Total Dissolved Solids Release from Overburden in Appalachian Coal Fields -- Natural Attenuation of TDS in Mountaintop Mines -- Predicting TDS Release from Appalachian Mine Spoils -- Long-Term Trends of Electrical Conductivity in Streams Flowing Out of Headwater Valley Fills in Virginia -- 4.2 Environmental Considerations in Underground Mining -- Event Tree Failure Mode Development for Mining Near Bodies of Water -- Applications of Subsurface Subsidence Model to Study Longwall Subsidence Influences on Overburden Hydrological System -- Addressing the Effect of Sloping Terrain on Ground Movements Due to Underground Mining -- Application of Subsidence Prediction Methodologies for Sizing Barrier Pillars for Stream Protection in Appalachia -- Preliminary Assessment of Factors Affecting Springs Undermined by Longwall Mines in Pennsylvania -- 5.1 Stream Biota Impacts -- Methods for Evaluating the Effects of a Simulated Mine Effluent with Elevated Ionic Concentration to Field Collected Benthic Macroinvertebrates -- Exploring Benthic Impairment and Total Dissolved Solids in the Dumps Creek Watershed -- Benthic Macroinvertebrate Response to Total Dissolved Solids in Coal Mine Streams.

How Well Does Electrical Conductivity Predict Stream Impairment? -- Evaluation of Current Measures of Aquatic Biological Integrity in the Central Appalachian Coalfields: Efficacy and Implications -- 5.2 Landforms and Geomorphic Reclamation -- Sustainable Landform Construction on Coal Mining Operations That Require Valley Fills -- Methodology for Geomorphic Landform Design of Valley Fills in Appalachia Surface Mine Reclamation -- Investigating Regional Design Parameters in the Design of West Virginia Valley Fills to Support Application of Geomorphic Landform Design Principles -- Slope Stability Analysis of Geomorphic Landform Profiles Versus Approximate Original Contour Applied to Valley Fill Designs -- 6.1 Selenium in the Environment -- Subsurface Sequestration of Leached Waste-Rock Selenium in Reactive Ferrihydrate Beds -- Selenium Concentrations and Solid-State Chemical Speciation in Black Shale Associated with a West Virginia Coal Seam -- Selenium Treatment for Mine Water Discharge Compliance -- Strategies for Remediation of Selenium-Laden Waters -- Analysis of Low-Level Selenium in Coal Mine Discharges -- 6.2 Stream Restoration -- Natural Streams: Biological Effects of Natural Channel Design for Aquatic Habitat Restoration -- Hydrologic Assessment of the Guy Cove Stream Restoration Project -- Guy Cove Stream Restoration Project: Recreating a Headwater Stream System on a Head-of-Hollow Fill -- Leaf Litter Breakdown as a Functional Assessment Tool for Appalachian Coal Mine Stream Restorations -- Substrate and Seeding Treatment Effects on Native Tree Establishment and Herbaceous Cover on an Appalachian Coal Mine: First Growing Season Results -- 7.1 Total Dissolved Solids and Environmental Impacts -- Conductivity Sensor Accuracy and Temporal Stability: A Laboratory and Field Study -- Screening-Level Specific Conductivity Testing of Drill Core Strata.

Field Data and Regulatory Aquatic Life Criteria -- Chronic Toxicity Testing in Mining Influenced Streams of West Virginia -- 7.2 Environment, Coal Mining, and Sustainability -- Surface Coal Mine Blasting Optimization and Mitigation of Environmental Impacts: Mine to Fill -- Production, Cost, and Environmental Impact of Loading Equipment in Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia -- NOx Emission of Equipment and Blasting Agents in Surface Coal Mining -- Micro-Hydroelectric Power Generation Utilizing Mine Drainage -- Minepool Geothermal in Pennsylvania -- Sustainability in Surface Coal Mine Operations: The Importance of Good Geotechnical Design -- Ethics in Energy Sustainability -- Index -- Back Cover.