Mississippi State researchers are collecting information to help guide environmental planning for a state lignite mine and power plant.
Researchers in the Geosciences and Civil Engineering departments are providing data on water quality and on watershed and surface flow for the Choctaw County site of the Red Hills Generation Project.
Contracted by Phillips Coal Co., the Mississippi State research team is led by geologist Darrel Schmitz of Geosciences. The data, which the team will collect through the year, will be used in the permit process and in monitoring the environmental impact of the facility.
Groundbreaking for the generation project and power plant is expected in 1998. The state of Mississippi, Phillips Coal, and CRSS Capital are developing the lignite mine and power plant.
Civil engineering professors Dennis Truax and Vic Zitta are working to characterize watershed and surface flow.
In a second phase, the researchers are taking stream flow measurements and providing water quality sampling.
In a third phase, the research team is inventorying and sampling water wells, springs, and ponds.
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