The coal waste sites include the Sutton Steam Plant 1971 Pond and the Sutton Steam Plant 1984 Pond.
To see a nationwide list of over 350
coal waste sites in the United States, click here.
To see a listing of
coal waste sites in a particular state, click on the map:
CoalSwarm includes profiles of hundreds of
coal waste sites.
Not exact matches
Regulations for
waste disposal, including the disposal of
coal ash, should be strengthened and fully enforced to prevent the creation of new contaminated
sites and new threats to drinking water.
A
waste containment dam break spilled 160,000 cubic meters of
coal ash into the Partizanskaya River and the Nahodka Bay watershed from a ring dike disposal
site near Partizansk in the Russian Far East 200 kilometers east of Vladivostok in May 2004.
RUSSIA A
waste containment dam break spilled 160,000 cubic meters of
coal ash into the Partizanskaya River and the Nahodka Bay watershed from a ring dike disposal
site near Partizansk in the Russian Far East 200 kilometers east of Vladivostok in May 2004.
Pure Color of the Hudson (after Rodchenko) Remediated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mud obtained from General Electric dredging
site, processed
waste coal from power plants in the Hudson Valley on Sintra, in Matthew Friday's Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, 2015.
[52] The report mentioned Arkansas based Flint Creek Power Plant and the Independence Steam Station were two
sites that have groundwater contamination due to
coal ash
waste.
The report, in an attempt to pressure the EPA to regulate
coal ash, noted that most states do not monitor drinking water contamination levels near
waste disposal
sites.
In the U.S., a range of legislation and regulation at the federal and state levels governs miner safety,
coal mine reclamation,
coal plant
siting, thermal pollution from
coal plant cooling,
coal combustion emissions, and disposal of
coal waste.
The billions of tons of
coal combustion
waste produced by power plants needs to be stored somewhere, often in
waste sites that are inadequately engineered to avoid dangerous spills or leaching of hazardous chemicals into groundwater supplies.
[24] The report mentioned Oregon's Boardman Plant was one
site that has groundwater contamination due to
coal ash
waste.
Its an effort that would require shipping
coal by rail to the coast, and dredging and dumping
waste in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage
site in order to expand ports and channels for shipping the
coal to India.
(Check out our map to see if there's a
coal ash
waste site near you).
[16][17] To see the full list of
sites, see
Coal waste.