Remediation of Abandoned Mine Lands

Friday, October 3, 2008: 1:20 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Concurrent E-2: Stream Restoration and Ecological Issues
1:20 p.m.Using Ecosystem Services Markets to Pay for Abandoned Mine Lands Remediation
Edward G. Sanders, Ph.D., Eco Asset Markets and Elling J. Myklebust, PE, Colorado State Parks
1:40 p.m.Linkages Between Acid and Metal Load Reductions from AMD Attenuation to Ecological Recovery in Little Raccoon Creek, Ohio
Benny K. McCament1, Jen R. Bowman1, Kelly Capuzzi2, Mitch E. Farley3 and Brett Laverty4, (1)Ohio University, (2)Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, (3)Ohio Department of Natural Resources, (4)North Carolina Depart. of Environment and Natural Resources
2:00 p.m.Impacts of Ground Water Metal Loads from Bedrock Fractures on Water Quality of a Mountain Stream
Brian S. Caruso, Ph.D., PE and Helen Dawson, Ph.D., US EPA
2:20 p.m.Risk Assessment and Watershed Based Approach to Management of Abandoned Mines
Maya Stano, WorleyParsons
2:40 p.m.Stream Restoration Solutions on Mined Lands
Thomas P. Ballestero, University of New Hampshire
3:00 p.m.America's Forests and Climate Change
Lyle Laverty, U.S. Dept. of Interior

Remediation of Abandoned Mine Lands