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 4. Comparison of plant available water holding capacities (percent by weight) of a typical Appalachian soil (Muskingum sandy loam, A horizon) and coal refuse. Two refuse values are given: an average of 27 Virginia coal refuse piles sampled in 1986 and 1987, and a value representative of the low water holding capacity of refuse that has been adjusted for coarse fragment content (Stewart and Daniels, 1992).