Water Resources Research

• Project No. WRI-117
  Project Title: Controlling Phosphate in Agricultural Field leachate Using Mine Drainage Treatment Ferrihydrite [.pdf 43kb]
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principle Investigator: Paul Ziemkiewicz
  Funding:
  • USGS: $30,350.65
  • WVU Cost-Share: $60,704.91
  • Total Project Value: $90,055.56
  Period of Project: March 1, 2009 - February 28, 2010
 
• Project No. WRI-119
  Project Title: Development and Presentation of Current Water Quality Data for the Public [.pdf 45kb]
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principle Investigator: Paul Ziemkiewicz
  Funding: $77,191.89
  Period of Project: March 1, 2009 - February 28, 2010
  Website: http://www.monwq.net
 
• Project No. WRI-39
  Project Title: Water Quality Measurement in Polishing Ponds of AMD Treatment Plants for Selection of Commercial Aquaculture Sites and Waste Management Studies [.pdf 489kb]
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigator: Kenneth Semmens
  Funding:
  • USGS: $14,900
  • Cost-Share: $78,241
  • Total Project Value: $93,141
  Project Status: Completed
  Final Report
 
• Project No. WRI-40
  Project Title: Aquaculture Waste Control and Optimizing Nutrient Utilization through Diet Composition and Feeding Strategies [.pdf 20kb]
  Recipient: West Virginia State College
  Principal Investigator: Jonathan Eya
  Funding
  • USGS: $38,627
  • Cost-Share: $90,094
  • Total Project Value: $128,721
  Project Status: Completed
  Final Report
 
• Project No. WRI-46
  Project Title: Assessing Extent and Longevity of Degredation Following Coal Mining in West Virginia [.pdf 26kb]
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigator: Paul Ziemkiewicz
  Funding
  • USGS: $23,542
  • Cost-Share: $48,728
  • Total Project Value: $72,270
  Project Status: Completed
  Final Report [.pdf 470kb]
 
• Project No. WRI-47
  Project Title: Establishing Biological and Water Quality Criteria for Water Resource Management in a Mining Impacted Watershed [.pdf 35kb]
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigator: Todd Petty
  Funding
  • USGS: $36,746
  • Cost-Share: $110,531
  • Total Project Value: $147,277
  Project Status: Completed
  Final Report [.pdf 194kb]
 
• Project No. WRI-48
  Project Title: Impact of Longwall Mining on Headwater Streams in Northern West Virginia
  Recipient: Wheeling Jesuit University
  Principal Investigator: Ben Stout, III
  Funding
  • USGS: $17,568
  • Cost-Share: $31,753
  • Total Project Value: $49,321
  Project Status: Completed
  Final Report [.pdf 372kb]
 
• Project No. WRI-54
  Project Title: Passive Treatment of Cl-Contaminated Waters in NW West Virginia Using Passive Absorptive Technologies
  Recipients: West Virginia University(WVU) and West Virginia State College (WVSC)
  Principal Investigators: Paul Ziemkiewicz (WVU) and James Mayhugh (WVSC)
  Funding:
  • USGS: $12,384
  • Cost-Share: $24,768
  • Total Project Value: $37,152
  Project Status: Completed
  Final Report
 
• Project No. WRI-55
  Project Title: Hydraulic Connections and Impacts on Water Supply in the Great Valley Karst Aquifer. A Case Study in Martinsburg, WV
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Dorothy Vesper
  Funding:
  • USGS: $21,829
  • Cost-Share: $25,891
  • Total Project Value: $47,720
  Project Status: Completed
  Final Report [.pdf 17kb]
 
• Project No. WRI-59
  Project Title: West Virginia Water Conference 2004
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Tamara Vandivort
  Funding:
  • USGS: $11,168
  • Cost-Share: $18,331
  • Total Project Value: $29,499
  Project Status: Completed
  Final Report [.pdf 72kb]
 
• Project No. WRI-60
  Project Title: Changes to In-Stream Suspended Sediment and Turbidity Following Improvements to a Forest Road in West Virginia
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Jingxin Wang
  Funding:
  • USGS: $25,060
  • Cost-Share: $50,230
  • Total Project Value: $75,290
  Project Status: Active
  Annual Report [.pdf 17kb]
 
• Project No. WRI-63
  Project Title: West Virginia Water Resources Inventory and Assessment
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Rick Herd
  Funding:
  • USGS: $54,092
  • Cost-Share: $128,568
  • Total Project Value: $182,660
  Project Status: Active
  Annual Report [.pdf 1.46mb]
 
• Project No. WRI-69
  Project Title: West Virginia Water Conference 2005
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Tamara Vandivort
  Funding:
  • USGS: $14,844
  • Cost-Share: $31,141
  • Total Project Value: $45,985
  Project Status: Completed
 
• Project No: WRI-81
  Project Title: Systematic determination of water resource data & information management needs in West Virginia
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Tamara Vandivort, Rick Herd
  Funding:
  • USGS: 10,332
  • Cost-share: 21,033
  • Total Project Value: 31,365
  Project Status: Active
  Abstract [.pdf 13kb]
 
• Project No: WRI-82
  Project Title: In-Stream Turbidity and Suspended Sediment Changes Following Improvements to a Forest Road and Harvesting
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Jingxin Wang
  Funding:
  • USGS: 29,496
  • Cost-share: 60,278
  • Total Project Value: 89,774
  Project Status: Active
  Abstract [.pdf 13kb]
 
• Project No: WRI-83
  Project Title: Evaluation of the Environmental Hazard of Selenium in Coal-Associated Rocks of the Southern West Virginia Coal Basin
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Ronald Smart
  Funding:
  • USGS: 31,892
  • Cost-share: 63,880
  • Total Project Value: 95,772
  Project Status: Active
  Abstract [.pdf 10kb]
 
• Project No: WRI-84
  Project Title: Chloride Sorption to Acid Mine Drainage Solids
  Recipient: West Virginia University
  Principal Investigators: Louis McDonald
  Funding:
  • USGS: 46,462
  • Cost-share: 92,905
  • Total Project Value: 139,367
  Project Status: Active
  Abstract [.pdf 12kb]

WRI23: Potomac Headwaters Sampling Project

 

WRI46: Assessing Extent and Longevity of Degradation Following Coal Mining in WV

 

WRI47: Establishing Biological and Water Quality Criteria for Water Resource Management in a Mining Impacted Watershed

 

WRI48: Impact of Longwall Mining on Headwater Streams in Northern West Virginia

 

WRI50: Strategies for Cooling Electric Generating Facilities Utilizing Mine Water

 

WRI51: A Hierarchical Classification System for Identifying Restoration Priorities and Impact Vulnerability in Mined Watersheds of the Mid Atlantic Highlands

 

WRI55: Hydraulic Connections and Impacts on Water Supply in the Great Valley Karst Aquifer. A Case Study in Martinsburg, WV

 

WRI60: Changes to In-Stream Suspended Sediment and Turbidity Following Improvements to a Forest Road in West Virginia

 

WRI62: Hydrologic Unit Plans for Lick Run of the Cheat River

 

WRI63: West Virginia Water Resources Inventory and Assessment

 

WRI71: Performance Evaluations of Advanced Onsite Wastewater Treatment Options

 

WRI81: Systematic Determination of Water Resource data & Information Management Needs in West Virginia

 

WRI82: In-Stream Turbidity and Suspended Sediment Changes Following Improvements to a Forest Road and Harvesting

 

WRI83: Evaluation of the Environmental Hazard of Selenium in Coal-Associated Rocks of the Southern West Virginia Coal Basin

 

WRI84: Chloride Sorption to Acid Mine Drainage Solids

 

WRI91: Statistical Analysis of Nutrient Trends in the Ohio River

 

WRI97: Chemical and Flow Characterization of Mining Impacted Streams Using Continuous Water Quality Monitoring and Watershed Modeling

 

WV153: A Strategic Watershed Mitigation Plan for the Pigeon Creek Watershed, Mingo County, WV

 

WV191: Reforestation and Enhanced CO2 Sequestration of Surface Mined Land in WV and AMD Treatment Design and Installation

 

WV240: Quantifying the Functional Value of Stream and Wetland Mitigation Structures on Reclaimed Surface Mines in West Virginia

• Semmens, Kenneth. 2002
  Water Quality Measurement in Polishing Ponds of AMD Treatment Plants for Selection of Commercial Aquaculture Sites and Waste Management Studies
  Final Report for Project No. WRI-39. 22 p. [.pdf 489kb]
• Eya, Jonathan. 2004
  Aquaculture Waste Control and Optimizing Nutrient Utilization through Diet Composition and Feeding Strategies
  Final Report for Project No. WRI-40. 5 p. [.doc 53kb]
• Petty, Todd. 2004
  Spatio-Temporal Variability in Water Chemistry and Its Effects on Stream Ecological Condition in a Mined, Appalachian Watershed
  Final Report for Project No. WRI-47. 26 p. [.doc 2.93mb]
• Stout, Ben M. III. 2004
  Do Headwater Streams Recover from Longwall Mining Impacts in Northern West Virginia?
  Final Report for Project No. WRI-48. 32 p. [.doc 2.53mb]
• Mayhugh, James and Paul Ziemkiewicz.
  Treatment of Chloride Contaminated Mine Water in NW West Virginia
  Final Report for Project No. WRI-54. 8 p. [.doc 167kb]
• Vandivort, Tamara. 2005
  West Virginia Water Conference 2004
  Final Report for Project No. WRI-59. 6 p. [.doc 100kb]
• Freund, J. G. and J. T. Petty.
  IN PRESS. Response of fish and macroinvertebrate bioindices to specific stressor levels in a mined Appalachian watershed.
  Environmental Management
• McClurg S., J. T. Petty, and P. M. Mazik.
  IN PRESS. Stream ecosystem response to Limestone mitigation programs in two acidic Appalachian watersheds.
  Ecological Applications.
• Merovich, G. T., Jr., and J. T. Petty.
  IN PRESS. Interactive effects of multiple stressors and restoration priorities in a mined Appalachian watershed. Hydrobiologia.
• Petty, J. T., and D. Thorne. 2005.
  An ecologically based approach for identifying restoration priorities in acid impacted watersheds.
  Restoration Ecology. 13:348-587.
• Petty, J. Todd, and J. Barker. 2004.
  Water quality variability, trace metals, and Implications for restoring a mined Appalachian watershed.
  Proceedings of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation 21:1484-1504.
• Petty, J. Todd. 2004.
  An ecological index to assess alternative regulation of thermal impact at the Albright Power Station, WV.
  Proceedings of the EPRI Thermal Ecology and Management Workshop.
• Stiles, J. M., G. T. Merovich, J. T. Petty, P. F. Ziemkiewicz, and J. B. Fulton.
  IN REVIEW. Water chemistry based classification of streams and implications for Stream restoration in mined Appalachian watersheds.
  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
• Eya, J. C., A. Parsons, 1. Haile and P. Jagidi. 2005.
  Composition or effect of vanour kinds of neolites on growth, body composition and waste output in juvenile rainbow trout Onorhynchus mykiss.
  Aquaculture America 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2005.
• Eya, J. C., A. Parsons, 1. Haite and P. Jagidi. 2005.
  The impact of feeding strategy, dietary phosphorus and varying protein and fat contents on juvenile rainbow trout growth performance and waste output.
  Aquaculture America 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2005.