Masonry Magazine February 2011 Page. 54
INDUSTRY NEWS
Hundreds of communities around the country face a major public health threat, yet the books are being cooked to accommodate the coal industry.
The groups emphasized the following:
* About $400 million has been spent so far to clean up the TVA Kingston spill with more than 3 million tons of spilled ash removed from the site. However, the cleanup is far from complete. Meanwhile, at least 50 similar, unregulated high-hazard dams around the country continue to pose a similar risk of catastrophic failure, and many more ash dumps are currently contaminating groundwater. EPA, EIP, and Earthjustice have documented over 100 dump sites where coal ash has poisoned water supplies.
* EPA's own risk assessments reveal that arsenic levels in drinking water around unlined ash ponds can be high enough to cause cancer in one of 50 people, which is 2,000 times EPA's acceptable risk level. Yet, there is evidence that this high cancer risk is substantially underestimated. The leading arsenic experts in the country observe that this risk is actually 17.5 times greater.
* A review of state regulations shows that the majority of states fail to require essential safeguards for coal ash landfills and ponds, including liners, groundwater monitoring, leachate collection, dust controls and financial assurance. In the two years since the disaster in Kingston, little has been done to improve state controls. Only four states in the U.S. require all landfills to be monitored and only six states require all ponds to be monitored for leaks.
For more information, visit www.environmentalintegrity.org. IMAS
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