Water Quality research – Acid Mine Drainage Water Studies. 

The state of West Virginia is concerned and interested in the water quality of its streams, especially those near existing and abandoned coal mines.  At WVSU we have been fortunate in having the ability to study water issues in our state with the chemistry department's current equipment.  We have been conducting some studies on water quality but have been hampered with the number of samples and analysis of a wide variety of contaminants. The objective of the research is to utilize current atomic adsorption spectrometer (AA) and induced coupled plasma (ICP) to further study the quality of water in an abandoned coal mines with acid mine drainage issues.