Journal article
Estimates of water and solute release from a coal waste rock dump in the Elk Valley, British Columbia, Canada
Abstract
Long term (1999 to 2014) flow and water quality data from a rock drain located at the base of a coal waste rock dump constructed in the Elk Valley, British Columbia was used to characterize the release of three solutes (NO3-, Cl- and SO42-) from the dump and obtain whole dump estimates of net percolation (NP). The concentrations of dump derived solutes in the rock drain water were diluted by snowmelt waters from the adjacent natural watershed …
Authors
Villeneuve SA; Barbour SL; Hendry MJ; Carey SK
Journal
The Science of The Total Environment, Vol. 601, , pp. 543–555
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
December 2017
DOI
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.040
ISSN
0048-9697