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The 2014 Dan River coal ash spill occurred in February 2014, when an Eden, North Carolina facility owned by Duke Energy spilled 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. The company later pled guilty to criminal negligence in their handling of coal ash at Eden and elsewhere and paid fines of over $5 million.
Duke Energy does not argue that coal ash has leaked into the water source but the company does argue whether the drinking water supplied by the Cape Fear has reached unsafe levels of heavy metals. Duke Energy implies that some of the research that is being released by environmental groups is creating uncalled for panic among the citizenry. [ 4 ]
Columbia Energy Center in Wisconsin with a coal ash pond landfill. 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.
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 ...
Millions of tons of coal ash remain at Duke Energy's Sutton Plant north of Wilmington. Here's why that might not be a major problem. Duke's Sutton coal plant closed in 2013, but most of the ash is ...
Duke Energy Corp said it shut down a North Carolina natural gas plant due to flooding as the deluge of water continued in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, which has killed more than 40 people.
Duke Energy (16 October 2016), "Cooling pond at Duke Energy's H.F. Lee Plant breaks; minimal river impact expected", prnewswire Editors of Power Engineering (22 December 2016), "In Shift, Duke Energy to Recycle Coal Ash at H.F. Lee Plant" , Power Engineering , retrieved 2018-06-23
The pond where Minnesota Power was taking water was used between 1980 and 2015 to dispose of fly ash, or fine particles that are carried by the flue gases in a plant.