{"id":9848,"date":"2014-08-20T12:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=9848"},"modified":"2014-08-31T03:08:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T07:08:53","slug":"toxic-waste-coal-ash-in-alabama-and-georgia-landfills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/toxic-waste-coal-ash-in-alabama-and-georgia-landfills.html","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Waste? Coal ash in Alabama and Georgia landfills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nOregon\r\n\r\ndenying a permit for a coal dock on the Columbia River Monday<\/a>\r\nmay seem far away, but the effects of coal ash are right here\r\nin Lowndes County.\r\nEffects that an Alabama county is calling a toxic chemical civil rights violation in the Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown.\r\n

\r\nAP reported 14 August 2014,\r\n\r\nEPA investigating claims west Alabama landfill violates civil rights of black property owners<\/a>,\r\n

\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nIt’s not the first time that the Arrowhead has been in the news. In\r\n2009, an estimated 3.9 million tons of coal ash was dumped at the\r\nlandfill. It was brought in after a Tennessee Valley Authority dam\r\nbreached in east Tennessee, spilling toxic ash into a river and\r\ndamaging about 300 acres. To date, it’s the largest coal ash spill\r\nin U.S. history.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMuch of that ash ended up being dumped at the landfill in Perry\r\nCounty, which in return received an estimated $4.1 million.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nSome of that same coal ash from the TVA spill in Tennessee\r\n\r\nwas shipped to the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County, Georgia,\r\nwhich spread some of it on its roads<\/a>,\r\nwhich are\r\nin an aquifer recharge zone for the Floridan Aquifer\r\nand a quarter mile uphill from the Withlacoochee River<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nJoan Walker wrote for Footprints 22 December 2013,\r\nFive years since Kingston: Perry County, Alabama\u2019s Toxic Tragedy<\/a>,\r\n

\r\nCoal ash-laden runoff from the Arrowhead landfill carries up to 80 times EPA’s legal limit for arsenic in drinking water\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nWhy shouldn’t we expect the same kind of runooff from the Pecan Row Landfill?\r\n

\r\nPecan Row was privatized some years back and is supposedly\r\noverseen by the Deep South Solid Waste Authority, to which\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nthe Lowndes County Commission appoints members yet\r\n\r\ndoesn’t know who’s on it<\/a>,\r\nand\r\ncan’t or won’t account for tipping fees received<\/a>.\r\nNow there’s another question: did ADS get millions of dollars for accepting\r\nthat toxic coal ash into Lowndes County?\r\n

\r\nThe same ADS to which the same County Commission\r\n\r\ngave an exclusive franchise for trash collection<\/a>\r\nand along with which the county is suing a local business.\r\n

\r\nDoes anything smell bad to you about all this?\r\n

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