Slow Motion Spills: Coal Combustion Waste & Water in Kentucky | Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Slow Motion Spills: Coal Combustion Waste & Water in Kentucky

Date Published: 
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Source/Author: 
Sierra Club, Kentucky Waterways Alliance, and Global Environmental LLC

Every day in Kentucky, coal combustion waste ponds and landfills leak into our groundwater and rivers, seeping out a slow-motion flood of contamination. As this report shows, every site in Kentucky for which groundwater data was available appears to be leaking. Kentucky is failing to control coal combustion waste contamination.

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