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keh

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Ok, I have never seen an explanation of WHAT chemical was spilled in WV and how it is used in coal mining. I understand it was used in washing coal. Why is a chemical needed to wash coal?

KEH
 

I understand that nearly all coal is "Cleaned" before it is burned (government Mandate?) to remove the Sulfur, these days.

I see train loads of Coal traveling South, when it should have been traveling North, to Lake Erie because it is heading to the facility that will "clean" it.

Sounded odd that there was NO Law that covered "Stored Fuels" and again that this was just up-stream of their water supply.

I am concerned about the mixed reports about ground Water contamination from "Fracking"operations..once contaminated, what are the prospects of it ever recovering..?

Ron.
 
A little northwest of Dallas is a town called Azle. Since fracking operations began a few years ago,they have started having earth quakes. There have been 32 earthquakes in the last few months. Most of them very slight, but they are getting stronger. Last quake was on Monday and registered 3.1.

There are folks who have lived there all their lives and say they never had a quake until fracking began.

Google "earthquakes in Azle, Tx"
 
I heard the name of it on the news right after it happened,but don't ask me what it was. I don't know if you've ever been down through there or not,but it's so mountainous,there's no place to put anything that runoff wouldn't get in to the water somewhere,somehow.
 
In the coal industry, various types of shale and clay are produced as a mixture with the coal. To increase the heating value of the coal and to reduce the hauling costs, a complex process of coal washing is normally used to reduce the total ash content. In this process the coal is graded to a certain size, usually less than six inches, and then fed into a slurry bath in which the density of the media is closely controlled. The coal floats in the heavy media bath while the heavier rocks sink to the bottom.

Here’s how the coal industry’s PR machine sought to characterize this process, from a 1979 ad in the Wall Street Journal: “Raw coal is crushed, exposing more of its natural inner impurities. The crushed coal is passed through a bath of heavy liquid. The lighter “cleaned” coal floats to the top and the heavier impurities sink to the bottom.”
 
What makes this a diaster of I beleive 9 counties is this company named American Water.American water is a very large water purifing company that beleives bigger is better,and they were allowed to buy or operate a lot of small municipals,and public service districts and to draw water from one location and pump it to other locations.This is sort of like putting all your eggs in one basket.This spill just happen to be where American water pulled there water from.The advantage of smaller plants is they all pull from different locations or they warn each other if problerms exsist.As for this chemical holding co not being regulated this doesnt make sense,and I sure its about to change.I work for a Wastewater company in WV and we are regulated

jimmy
 
If I remember correct a overseas owned company purchased the water company in the last 10 years or so. They also owned in other states. Haven't kept up on it so not sure if the same company still controls it.
At the time political and other officials were pushing it as a good thing for WV and pushing the PSC to okay the sale.
Like you said several plants that draw water from several sources were closed over time. Lots of the small plants needed upgrades though.
To be fair it probably would have happened at that plant whoever owned it.
 
Your correct,American water had nothing to do with the spill,There intake was infected which spread the problem to 9 counties instead of one location.Even where I work in the area there is privite contractors that buy homeowners systems with the hope of selling them to a larger bussiness and making a good profit

jimmy
 
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