Cooperative Agreement S08AP12920

This $199,994 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement will fund research to optimize dewatering of acid mine drainage treatment sludges through December 2025. The work falls under the Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation program (CFDA 15.255), which aims to develop improved science-based technologies to address environmental restoration topics associated with coal mining. Specifically, the...

This $243,482 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the "Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Training Grants and Cooperative Agreements - Section 104(b)(3) of the Clean Water Act" (CFDA 66.436) program provides funding to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to monitor and assess transboundary mining pollution in the Kootenai watershed. Key activities include procuring essential equipment, conducting monthly water...

This $200,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) under the Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation program (CFDA 15.255) aims to develop and demonstrate an integrated, pilot-scale solid-phase extraction process for the recovery of critical minerals from acid mine drainage (AMD). The project team at West Virginia University Research Corporation will fundamentally...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) was awarded a $119,687 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Use and Data Research (WUDR) Program to enhance the quality and usability of West Virginia's water use data. Under this 2-year project, WVDEP will identify and implement several improvements to their Large Quantity User (LQU) database, including establishing a one-to-one primary facility key to resolve duplicate facility IDs, integrating the...

This $620,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey's Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes (CFDA 15.805) program supports a multidisciplinary investigation of how daily environmental cycles impact the fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) precursors in surface waters. The project combines field studies, laboratory experiments, and computational modeling to understand the interplay of abiotic and biotic transformation processes affecting PFAS...

The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development awarded $1,538,477 under the Innovative Water Technology Grant Program (CFDA 66.521) to the West Virginia University Research Corporation from January 2023 through December 2025. The project aims to identify sustainable technologies, methods, and cost-effective opportunities for more efficient nutrient removal in lagoon wastewater systems serving small, rural communities of less than 10,000 people. Under the award, the West...

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University $200,000 under the Science and Technology Projects Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation federal grant program (CFDA 15.255) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025. The award will support Virginia Tech's development, optimization, and validation of an innovative acid mine drainage sludge dewatering process circuit consisting of lime neutralization, precipitate flotation, and...

The Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement awarded a $426,238 Cooperative Agreement to the Sewickley Creek Watershed Association (SCWA) under the Not-for-Profit, Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Reclamation - Watershed Cooperative Agreement Program (CFDA 15.253). The funding will support continued operation and maintenance of the Brinkerton Mine Drainage Treatment System, which was constructed in 2008 to remove iron from mine drainage and improve water quality in...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Project Grant award of $359,636 to the University of Washington is focused on developing and evaluating novel ferrate-coated sand media for simultaneous oxidation of organic contaminants and adsorption of trace metals in water treatment applications. The key objectives are to: 1) synthesize and characterize the covalent ferrate-sand composite media; 2) investigate the media...

This $262,158 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) will fund research at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to develop advanced oxidation processes for controlling the formation of iodinated disinfection byproducts (I-DBPs) in drinking water treatment. The key objectives are to: 1) investigate the use of advanced oxidation processes like ferrate, ozone, and UV to optimize the...