Roger Viadero, Assistant
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and
Julio Davalos, Professor of Civil Engineering
WVU College of Engineering and Mineral
Resources
Determining the
feasibility of growing trout in water from acid mine drainage treatment
plants will be an ongoing focus of aquaculture research at WVU. Following
a technical assessment of impaired water resources near the WVU campus
in Morgantown, a pilot scale flowing water system will be designed and
installed. A unique modular raceway system using composite fiberglass
construction will be utilized. A secondard focus of this objective will
be to collect baseline water quality data from selected trout production
facilities in West Virginia and characterization of the resulting effluent.
These data should help trout producers develop strategies to satisfy
expected effluent guidelines currently under consideration by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
