Post by Logan on Feb 17, 2016 0:23:02 GMT -6
Fearing a potential threat to the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland is wading into a water pollution controversy in Virginia, appealing a decision that allows a power company to drain treated water from coal ash ponds into a creek that flows into the Potomac.
Gov. Larry Hogan's secretaries of environment and natural resources, and Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh, asked a state judge in Richmond to review Virginia's approval of Dominion Virginia Power's plan to drain the ponds at its Possum Point Power Station, located on the banks of the Potomac, across the river from Maryland.
"Being good stewards of the Potomac watershed means taking extreme caution so that that untreated or improperly treated coal ash does not foul waterways," Frosh said in a statement. "Any plan to dump waste in or near the river needs heightened scrutiny and rigorous analysis, and that is what this legal step is ensuring."
Dominion has four ponds at Possum Point that hold a mix of coal ash and water. The company plans to drain the water out of the ponds, treat it and discharge it into Quantico Creek. The coal ash that's left behind will be moved into one pond that will become a dry landfill and be capped.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-coal-ash-20160216-story.html
Cross-posted on the Maryland sub-board.
Gov. Larry Hogan's secretaries of environment and natural resources, and Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh, asked a state judge in Richmond to review Virginia's approval of Dominion Virginia Power's plan to drain the ponds at its Possum Point Power Station, located on the banks of the Potomac, across the river from Maryland.
"Being good stewards of the Potomac watershed means taking extreme caution so that that untreated or improperly treated coal ash does not foul waterways," Frosh said in a statement. "Any plan to dump waste in or near the river needs heightened scrutiny and rigorous analysis, and that is what this legal step is ensuring."
Dominion has four ponds at Possum Point that hold a mix of coal ash and water. The company plans to drain the water out of the ponds, treat it and discharge it into Quantico Creek. The coal ash that's left behind will be moved into one pond that will become a dry landfill and be capped.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-coal-ash-20160216-story.html
Cross-posted on the Maryland sub-board.