Book Description
The purpose of this report is to (1) summarize water quality and biomonitoring studies of coal-seam produced waters in Alabama; and (2) to present a monitoring approach for evaluating the risk, and acceptability of surface discharge for certain produced waters. The integrated monitoring approach, termed the Cedar Cove model, was developed for produced waters derived from the development of methane from coal seams in Alabama. The integrated monitoring approach consists of chemical-specific effluent monitoring, toxicological evaluation of the produced water, instream bioassessment, and continual water-quality monitoring of the receiving stream.
