Powell River Project
Reclamation Guidelines for Surface-Mined Land in Southwest Virginia

Reclamation of Coal Refuse Disposal Areas

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

Reclamation of Coal Refuse Disposal Areas; Figure 5


Figure 5. Agricultural limestone being applied and tracked into a refuse fill face. Working lime and other amendments on the steeper slopes that dominate most refuse piles can be challenging. For extremely acidic refuse materials several applications of lime split several months apart may be necessary. It is difficult to spread and incorporate more than 25 tons of lime per acre in one application, even on flat sites.

Return to Reclamation of Coal Refuse Disposal Areas