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On January 11, 2022 EPA announced an enforcement action involving ash ponds at certain coal-fired plants in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and New York. The agency's proposal would deny the plants' requests for extensions beyond the 2021 deadline and would require them to close their ash ponds ahead of their proposed schedules.
There are four coal-ash basins at the H.F. Lee Steam Plant. [19] An active ash pond enclosed in a dyke lies opposite Quaker Neck Lake to the north of the river. [20] There are three inactive ash basins to the west of the river further upstream. [21] These are forested, do not impound water and are normally dry. [11]
The lake contains 20 billion US gallons (7.6 × 10 10 litres; 1.7 × 10 10 imperial gallons) of coal ash and smokestack scrubber waste. [2] The northern coast of the lake is only a few hundred meters from the Ohio River , which is the drinking water source for more than three million people.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land the Pella Wildlife Area, the largest of about 120 that have taken place in Iowa since ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...