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Beginning in 2013, more than 200 workers sued Jacobs, claiming the company's supervisors misled them about the dangers of the ash, failed to provide them with Contractor says it has settled ...
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 ...
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.
In an official comment on the letter, Georgia Power said their ash pond closure plans are designed to comply with both the federal and state coal ash rules. Georgia EPD did not respond to requests ...
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 ...
Coal ash deposits on the Dan River shoreline, downstream from the spill. On February 2, 2014 a drainage pipe burst at a coal ash containment pond owned by Duke Energy in Eden, North Carolina, sending 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. In addition to the coal ash, 27 million gallons of wastewater from the plant was released into the ...
One million gallons of coal ash-tainted water spilled at a Minnesota Power plant after a break in an underground plastic pipe, according to a company executive. The water, which was being siphoned ...
After a large coal fly ash slurry spill in 2008, slurry pond regulations have been made by the Mine Safety and Health Administration to prevent spills like this one and the Martin County coal slurry spill in the future. The administration has also issued annual checks on mining impoundment areas by mining engineers and increased staff training ...