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Highly acidic spoil leachates at the former Shilbottle Grange Colliery site (Northumberland, UK) have been constrained to flow through a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) containing a mixture of limestone gravel, horse manure and composted green waste. Leachates leave the PRB through a seepage face, draining into ponds and a reedbed. Iron concentrations decrease across the system from >800 mg 1-1 to ∼10 mg 1-1. Iron loading reduction is about 98%. While pH rises from 4 to 6 in the PRB, subsequent precipitation of metals as hydroxides and hydroxysulphates leads to the apparent paradox of simultaneous decreases in both total acidity and pH. The PRB removes about 30% of the sulphate (by reductive precipitation of metal sulphides), while the lagoons and reed bed together remove another 20% (as hydroxy-sulphate precipitates). The system as a whole reduces the sulphate content of the raw water by 50%.
Author(s): Younger PL, Moustafa M
Editor(s): Boshoff, GA; Bone, BD
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Permeable Reactive Barriers
Year: 2005
Volume: 298
Pages: 117-122
Print publication date: 01/01/2005
Publisher: IAHS Press
Place Published: London
URL: http://iahs.info/redbooks/a298/298017.htm
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781901502237
