Normally the Dan River water at Danville is caramel brown.
Posted on 02/06/2014 7:26:07 AM PST by Rebelbase
ON THE DAN RIVER, N.C. – Canoe guide Brian Williams dipped his paddle downstream from where thousands of tons of coal ash has been spewing for days into the Dan River, turning the wooden blade flat to bring up a lump of gray sludge.
On the riverbank, hundreds of workers at a Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina scrambled to plug a hole in a pipe at the bottom of a 27-acre pond where the toxic ash was stored.
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Normally the Dan River water at Danville is caramel brown.
Toxic hysteria. “MAY contain lead, acid, mercury, radioactive uranium, blah, blah blah, ooga booga blah.”
Analyze the deposits and find out instead of crying that the sky is falling. Then you can be sure. They also omit that the “lead, acid, mercury and radioactive uranium” are likely all naturally infused.
Complete unchecked hysteria.
I had no idea coal ash was “toxic”. *rolls eyes*
Sounds like the regime orchestrated this for political reasons
This is very convenient for the ecconuts. They have been wanting Duke to do something about these flyash ponds for a while.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/01/15/4612845/groups-ask-to-join-duke-energy.html#.UvOt42eYaJA
Re: litigation against duke for flyash ponds.
SIMPLE TOXICITY TEST:
Are the fish dead?
I’m curious as to if there will be a fish kill.
Well, then. Let’s shut the plant down and make area residents put solar panels on their houses. Then we can get the stories about people freezing to death and not having electricity all winter. I wonder if they’d like that better than a brown river every once in a while.
They use it for stuff. It’s a common additive to concrete.
oh me oh my whatever will we do
it’s still cleaner than it was 20 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill
the spill caused a mudflow wave of water and ash that covered 12 homes
It was the largest coal-related slurry spill in United States history
the area contained about 2.6 million cubic yards of ash, and that two-thirds of that had been released, which would later be found to cover an area of 300 acres
Duke converted (or is the process of converting) Dan River to NatGas and shutdown the coal units due to EPA hyper-regulation. The shutdown/conversion of the older plants has been justification for increasing rates statewide.
As my inlaw grandfather once said as he poured his motoroil and gas cans into the yard, “It came from the earth, it goes back into the earth”.
Its also used to blend with dirt, and stabilize road subgrades. And, in some places, it is still spread on dirt roads, to make them stronger.
The ash used to be used as a surfacing for running tracks too. The ashes from a school’s power plant were just spread on the running track, as coal was burnt.
But, just as there are different types of coal, there are different types of ash. Some of the ash has a low PH, that I imagine could harm fish. And, its use in concrete is because it acts as a low strength cement, which usually means that ingesting it in any way, or even exposing your skin to a lot of it, isn’t a good thing. I’m sure this creek will dilute it quite a bit...but its not a great thing that all this ash went into the creek.
when I was a kid we built with cinder blocks. now they are cement blocks but back then power plant cinders were bound together to make building blocks
many people still call them cinder blocks...but the ones available around here are concrete.
Coal ash is carbon. Carbon is chemically neutral. Besides, when it was dug out of the ground, coal was carbon then too. So was it a pollutant before it was mined?
Eco-hysteria reigns.
This is news? The trees in the bottom picture are Green. It is winter in North Carolina isn’t it? Are trees green there year round?
More stupid eco hysteria.
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