Comments on: Valley Fills Are Made Of This http://endmtr.com/2008/05/22/valley-fills-are-made-of-this/ Working to 'Write' a Wrong Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:49:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: debbie http://endmtr.com/2008/05/22/valley-fills-are-made-of-this/comment-page-1/#comment-263 debbie Sat, 24 May 2008 03:19:10 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=174#comment-263 Denny, if I'm not mistaken the permit began at over 1800 acres. Acreage has been added since the initial permit was given by our great WV DEP so I would believe it to be well over 2000 acres of barren useless land that once had been the home to families for generations. Families that once had everything a human needed for life in those mountains. Also after the disaster in Martin County Ky, this sludge impoundment had to have the water diverted from it because of heavy rains and the coal co thought the sludge dam was in danger of failing then. That was before all the trees, soil, and life had been wiped from the face of the earth behind it. But as we all know-coal keeps the lights on. Denny, if I’m not mistaken the permit began at over 1800 acres. Acreage has been added since the initial permit was given by our great WV DEP so I would believe it to be well over 2000 acres of barren useless land that once had been the home to families for generations. Families that once had everything a human needed for life in those mountains.
Also after the disaster in Martin County Ky, this sludge impoundment had to have the water diverted from it because of heavy rains and the coal co thought the sludge dam was in danger of failing then. That was before all the trees, soil, and life had been wiped from the face of the earth behind it.
But as we all know-coal keeps the lights on.

]]> By: Denny http://endmtr.com/2008/05/22/valley-fills-are-made-of-this/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Denny Sat, 24 May 2008 02:38:43 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=174#comment-264 Thanks Debbie, I didn't know the acreage but I figured it had to be way up there. As far as that sludge pond - I see an accident just waiting to happen. They have mined the mountains here in such a way as to create an <i>un</i>natural funnel. The water has no choice but to flow to the pond. I would especially be concerned with what is normally called a gully washer and that is something that is definitely not uncommon. Especially now that we have barren land. Thanks Debbie, I didn’t know the acreage but I figured it had to be way up there.

As far as that sludge pond – I see an accident just waiting to happen. They have mined the mountains here in such a way as to create an unnatural funnel. The water has no choice but to flow to the pond. I would especially be concerned with what is normally called a gully washer and that is something that is definitely not uncommon. Especially now that we have barren land.

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