Authors: W. Lee Daniels, Associate Professor, and Barry Stewart and Dennis Dove, Graduate Research Assistants, Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech
Publication Number 460-131, June 1996
Figure 1. Typical coal refuse disposal area in southwest Virginia. Coal refuse materials are transported to the fill by an elevated belt line and then compacted in place in a valley fill configuration. Note the steep slopes on the fill face and the fact that the lower cells on the face have been vegetated while the upper cells are still bare.