Water-Quality and -Quantity Data for Abandoned Underground Coal Mines in Eastern Kentucky

Authors

Steven E. Webb, University of KentuckyFollow
Dennis H. Cumbie, University of Kentucky
James S. Dinger, University of KentuckyFollow
Leslie K. Russo, University of Kentucky

Abstract

Water-quality and -quantity analyses were performed between 1997 and 2003 by the Kentucky Geological Survey under contract from the Kentucky River Authority and the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to study abandoned underground coal mines as possible water supplies for communities in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field. The steep terrain of the coal field limits surface-water supplies, and groundwater systems are difficult to locate and often have too low a yield to provide community water supplies. KGS has been working with the Kentucky River Authority, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, and local government officials to search for water supplies in abandoned underground coal mines.

The data in the appendices of this report are interpreted in Cumbie and others (2006).

Publication Date

2006

Series

Series XII

Report Number

Information Circular 15

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/kgs.ic15.12

Repository Citation

Webb, Steven E.; Cumbie, Dennis H.; Dinger, James S.; and Russo, Leslie K., "Water-Quality and -Quantity Data for Abandoned Underground Coal Mines in Eastern Kentucky" (2006). Information Circular--KGS. 24.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kgs_ic/24