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COAL ASH: Battle lines form as sprawling dump leaks into W.Va. neighborhood -Greenwire
“It’s equivalent to seven fire hoses,” Curt Havens said, describing one outflow. “If you lay seven fire hoses side by side, that’s how much water is coming through there.”
Neighbors blame the 1,700-acre Little Blue Run coal ash dump — an unlined impoundment that straddles the border with Pennsylvania and has for decades been a repository for combustion waste from FirstEnergy Corp.’s Bruce Mansfield coal power plant near Shippingport, Pa. The waste travels several miles through an underground pipe.
Environmental advocates argue the dump — which neighbors say is several hundred feet deep in places and can look light sapphire blue from the sky — is emblematic of the pollution that dozens of such facilities are causing. They want U.S. EPA to force them to close
Coal Ash Landfills Pose Problems Near Joliet, Nationally
One of their biggest concerns is the Will County Generating Station coal plant, owned by the company Midwest Generation, about a mile from Rendulich’s and Burnitz’s homes. Midwest Generation also runs a coal plant about 10 miles away in Joliet and two others in Illinois. The plants emit particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and other pollutants dangerous to public health. And in ponds on-site, they store coal ash – the residue from burning coal to generate electricity. Coal ash, which can include “scrubber sludge” that collects in pollution removal equipment, contains high levels of toxic metals, salts and chemicals that can contaminate rivers, lakes and groundwater, including drinking water. People can also suffer serious health effects from inhaling airborne coal ash.
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Black dust from the giant coal ash heap across the street from Kathy Little’s Louisville home swirls in the wind, coating her windows, her car, and blows indoors to settle on the furniture.
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“It’s a constant struggle and it’s a sad situation because there’s not a lot of people that know that goliath is over there,” Little said of the ash dump near her home — at Louisville Gas & Electric’s Cane Run Station.
Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura said Sunday he is making final arrangements with Chubu Electric Power Co. to build an incinerator and waste disposal site for quake and tsunami debris at a local thermal power plant.
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The Aichi government would set its own safety standards and release radiation results from test runs and other data to help win over the city and local residents, the officials said.
Aichi is apparently opting to build its own incineration facilities because none of its 54 local municipalities have offered to help because of radiation fears.
The roughly 2.08 million sq. meter premises at the plant in Hekinan include landfill to dispose of coal ash produced in the process of power generation.
