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Coal Ash Storage and Use in the Potomac Basin
Coal Ash Storage and Use in the Potomac Basin - ICPRB
This page provides a short look at how these wastes are being generated and stored in the Potomac basin.
Possum Point facility on the Potomac River. Coal ash ponds provide on-site storage for the captured waste products from generation, sometimes called coal.
Coal Ash FAQs - Dominion Energy
Dominion Energy is acting to permanently close its ponds used to store coal ash, a by-product of burning coal.
Toxic Coal Ash in Virginia: Addressing Coal Plants' Hazardous Legacy
Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants. Virginia has 36 coal ash dumpsites.
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Coal Combustion By-Product Storage, Use, and Disposal Sites in ...
Potomac River. 0.150. Report indicates that the Cumberland power plant generated only small quantities of ash that, at this time was disposed in "landfills ...
EPA's coal ash crackdown comes with a major caveat - E&E News
An updated rule targets pollution from ash dumps, but it's up to companies that own them to propose steps to protect groundwater.
Coal ash: Everything you need to know - Potomac Conservancy
On May 9, Dominion began releasing treated coal ash water into Quantico Creek, which flows directly into the Potomac River. The discharges will ...
Ash storage: Over the decades, Dominion Energy placed its coal ash waste in three unlined, on-site ash ponds (East, West, and. North).
NEW RESEARCH SHOWS IMPACT OF DOMINION'S COAL ASH IN ...
In 2016, VA DEQ suspended the discharge of coal ash waste water to Quantico Creek from an unpermitted toe drain at one of its storage ponds. The ...
To excavate or not to excavate: With toxic coal ash, that is the question
Dominion plans to remove coal ash from pits, where it risks contaminating groundwater, and store it in a lined landfill on the same site.
Virginia leaps forward on coal ash
Today, years of work by a host of dedicated citizens, conservation groups, and elected officials came to fruition, as Governor Ralph Northam ...
A Breakthrough on Coal Ash Cleanup - Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Hazardous coal ash has been precariously stored in unlined ponds at four sites along the James, Potomac, and Elizabeth rivers, ...
Coal Ash Ponds | Clean Water Action
The legislation requires all of the nearly 30 million tons of coal ash stored in the Bay watershed at Dominion Energy power plants to be removed from unlined, ...
Dominion seeks permit for new coal ash landfill in Virginia
Dominion Energy is moving forward with plans to build a new coal ash landfill near the Potomac River in Northern Virginia.
"Historic" Agreement to Clean Up Coal Ash in Va.
The agreement requires that coal ash be removed from unlined storage ponds in Chesapeake City and Chesterfield, Prince William, and Fluvanna ...
Maryland challenges Dominion's coal ash water disposal plan in ...
Dominion Virginia Power assured regulators last month that it would construct temporary water treatment facilities prior draining coal ash ponds ...
Mapping the Coal Ash Contamination - Earthjustice
For decades, utilities have disposed of coal ash dangerously, dumping it in unlined ponds and landfills where the toxins leak into groundwater.
Virginia Officials Agree To Coal Ash Cleanup Plan - WAMU
“Cap in place, most importantly is off the table for all their coal ash ponds,” says Dean Naujoks, of the Potomac Riverkeeper. The nonprofit ...
Coal Ash | James River Association
Dominion currently has 6.2 million tons of coal ash stored in three unlined ponds at this location. Under legislation recently passed by the Virginia General ...