07-28-2015, 12:06 PM
|
|
|
Videochat Solutions
Industry Role:
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 48,636
|
I feel bad for people in Alabama. Not only do they have this crap in their water now, There's lots of Fracking Wells too. There was 2.9 Million gallons of oil spilled into a swap in November 2013, a huge one in the Mobil River in 2011, and a few other spills just outside the Alabama borders too. Not to mention a chemical spill in 2011 near Mobile, Alabama that still fowls the air. And then there's this:
Quote:
there are nine coal-fired power plants located on seven of Alabama’s rivers: the Tennessee, Black Warrior, Locust Fork, Mulberry Fork, Coosa, Tombigbee, and Mobile Rivers. Adjacent to each of these plants are massive coal ash storage ponds containing a total of 24.1 billion gallons of coal ash, the waste left behind when coal is burned. Coal ash contains many toxic metals like mercury, lead, and selenium. According to a recent report by the Environmental Integrity Project, Alabama’s coal ash ponds receive more toxic metals than any other coal ash dumps in the nation. The majority of coal ash dump sites in the state are old, unlined, and only separated from our drinking water sources by earthen dams.
Just this Monday, a storm water pipe broke in Eden, North Carolina, spilling a reported 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash along with 27 million gallons of water into the Dan River. The ash was stored at one of Duke Energy’s retired coal plants in an unlined ash pond, similar to many of the coal ash ponds we have in Alabama.[i]
|
An accident away: Recent chemical spills raise safety questions for Alabama drinking water ? Alabama Rivers Alliance |
|
|