Landower's Guide to Managing Streams in the Eastern United States

Authors: L.A. Helfrich, Extension specialist and professor, Virginia Tech; D.L. Weigmann, director, Office of Science and Technology, State of Nevada; R.J. Neves, leader, Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Publication Number 420-141, posted December 1998

Coal silt runoff and deadly acids seeping from underground and surface mines pose major threats to stream water quality and aquatic life.

Return to the Coal Mine Sediments and Acid section of The Stream Killers.