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An ash pond, also called a coal ash basin or surface impoundment, [1] is an engineered structure used at coal-fired power stations for the disposal of two types of coal combustion products: bottom ash and fly ash.
The Kingston Fossil Plant Spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.
Little Blue Run Lake or Little Blue Run is the largest coal ash impound in the United States. [1] FirstEnergy owns the site, located in Western Pennsylvania and parts of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, and has disposed of billions of gallons of coal waste into the body of water. Several court cases have been brought against the company ...
According to Georgia Power, the Scherer ash pond stopped receiving new ash in 2019. But the ash pond has still been receiving new water in the form of rain. Rain plus gravity can push the coal ash ...
The water, which was being siphoned off the top of an old coal ash pond for re-use at the Boswell Energy Center in Cohasset, Minn., escaped from a break in an underground bend in the pipe ...
Mar. 15—Duke Energy continues efforts to close coal ash ponds, or basins, at its former Wabash River Generating Station along the Wabash River, according to a utility spokeswoman. The work ...
Such ponds are susceptible to disastrous releases, such as the Buffalo Creek flood of 1972 or the Martin County coal slurry spill of 2000, which released over 250 million gallons of coal slurry. [10] Coal slurry can contain hazardous chemicals such as arsenic and mercury and can kill aquatic wildlife, as was the case in the Martin County spill ...
The A. B. Brown Station ash management impoundment was formed by building a dam to block off the outlet of a natural ravine about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the Ohio river. The ash pond consists of two dams. The Lower dam (built in 1978) has been classified by the Indiana DNR as a Significant Hazard (State ID#65-7, permit #D-4405, rev 1). The ...