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• Pollution Control Guidelines for Coal Refuse Piles and

  With existing knowledge of trace elements in coals and coal cleaning wastes, it may be worthwhile to initiate some research and prototype studies to evaluate the physical effectiveness, comparative environmental impacts, and economics of using clay liners to reduce groundwater contamination from coal refuse piles and slurry ponds. 15

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• Method of removing sulfur and other contaminants Justia

  An improved method of removing pyritic sulfur and other contaminants from the coil in a coaloil slurry. In such a slurry, raw pulverized coal is suspended in fuel oil. In practicing the process, the slurry is heated to a temperature of about 220 gree. C., at which temperature hexagonal pyrrhotite is converted to highly ferromagnetic monoclinic pyrrhotite which can be removed by a magnetic

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• Coal Slurry Analyzer SBIR.gov

  Sulfur and ash contaminants in coal can affect the quality, price, and need for environmental controls. Coal preparation plants have several circuits or processes to clean coal, but no instrument exists to measure sulfur and ash in a slurry, and to control the cleaning process.

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• Recovering heavy metals and rare earth elements from fly

  On December 22, 2008, the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston Fossil Plant spilled 1.1 billion gallons of coal fly ash slurry. River testing of the contaminated area showed high levels of toxic metals (including arsenic, copper, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel, and thallium).

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• EPA, coal company argue over waste plan News The

  Jul 16, 2012 · An Ohio mining company that has repeatedly polluted a pristine Belmont County stream with liquid coal waste wants to increase the size of its slurry lagoon. Officials with

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• Prenter Hollow Sues Coal Companies Over Contaminated Water

  Jan 03, 2009 · In Boone County, W.Va, nearly 300 people are suing nine coal companies for water contamination. Residents in Prenter claim that their private water wells were contaminated from toxic coal slurry that the companies injected in the abandoned underground mine

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• Coal slurry spill in West ia Appalachian Voices

  Apr 20, 2017 · A coal slurry spill on March 23, 2017, leaked approximately 5,400 gallons of coal slurry into Crooked Run, a tributary of the Coal River. The processing plant in Boone County, W.Va., where the spill originated is affiliated with Alpha Natural Resources.Read more ›

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• Mapping the Coal Ash Contamination Earthjustice

  Nov 06, 2019 · Groundwater Contamination Summary Describes the status of groundwater monitoring and whether the operator has found groundwater contamination from coal ash. In the map, Toxic Metal Contamination is per formal industry disclosures. Based on groundwater data available for 265 plants, 91 percent of these plants are contaminating groundwater with

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• Mining Water for all

  Special Types of Mining. Coal mining and fracking are both types of mining, but they present additional problems that can be addressed with the methods described below. Coal Mining. In addition to the sources of pollution listed above, coal mining produces coal slurry (also known as coal sludge) in the process of beneficiation.

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• COAL SLURRY WASTE UNDERGROUND INJECTION

  COAL SLURRY WASTE UNDERGROUND INJECTION ASSESSMENT . Final Report: Phase II . for submission to . West ia Department of Health and Human Resources . Office of Environmental Health Services . Agreement Number G090951 . July 30, 2010 . prepared by . Alan Duman, M.D., MSc, Community Medicine and . Project Principal Investigator

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• Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill Wikipedia

  Jan 01, 2015 · The aqueous suspension of fine refuse, referred to as coal slurry, frequently contains potentially toxic substances, including hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and coal cleaning chemicals. Disposal of coal slurry using underground injection has raised environmental concerns because it may lead to contamination of groundwater and water supplies.

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• c I 0,,,.C US EPA

  information available at this time regarding the effects of the coal slurry in the Tug Fork and Big Sandy River. Additional study of ecological impacts and the mechanisms by which slurry is mobilized and redeposited in the river is needed to determine if any such removal/remedial actions are warranted.

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• EPA to weaken federal curbs on waste from coalfired

  Nov 03, 2019 · The proposals, which scale back two rules adopted in 2015, affect the disposal of fine powder and sludge known as coal ash, as well as contaminated

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• Heavy metals and coal SourceWatch

  Jan 15, 2020 · This page was last edited on 15 January 2020, at 14:43. Content is available under Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialShareAlike. SourceWatch is a project of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

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• BREAKING: Pipe Break At Coal Facility Contaminates West

  Feb 11, 2014 · Coal slurry is a mix of solid and liquid waste that''s created from coal preparation, a process that includes washing coal with chemicals like MCHM. The DEP said in a statement that the facility utilizes a frothing chemical called Flomin 110C that contains MCHM, the same chemical that spilled from a Freedom Industries holding plant and contaminated water for 300,000 West ians

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• Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells and the Legacy of

  More rounds of testing followed, including by scientists from ia Tech. The Easterlings say one official told them he suspected coal slurry, a toxic waste product from coal preparation, was the main contaminant, but never gave them any formal documents or test results.

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• Toxic Coal Ash and Coal Slurry Citizens Against Longwall

  Coal mines use roughly 2 million gallons of water daily to wash coal when it comes out of the ground. Coal slurry is the contaminated process water that is leftover. It contains elevated levels of chlorides, sulfates, arsenic, lead, mercury, and selenium. Coal companies dispose of coal slurry

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• An Evaluation of the Underground Injection of Coal Slurry

  coal slurry produced by preparation plants in West ia that is injected underground. Underground injection involves the placement of coal slurry in abandoned underground mine voids. Slurry is gravity fed into the underground mine via a network of slurry pipelines and injection wells. Under most conditions, the solid portion of slurry

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• BREAKING: Pipe Break At Coal Facility Contaminates West

  Feb 11, 2014 · Coal slurry is a mix of solid and liquid waste that''s created from coal preparation, a process that includes washing coal with chemicals like MCHM. The DEP said in a statement that the facility utilizes a frothing chemical called Flomin 110C that contains MCHM, the same chemical that spilled from a Freedom Industries holding plant and contaminated water for 300,000 West ians

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• How Dangerous Is the CoalWashing Scientific American

  Jan 10, 2014 · Scientific American is the essential guide to the most aweinspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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• Mapping the Coal Ash Contamination Earthjustice

  Nov 06, 2019 · Groundwater Contamination Summary Describes the status of groundwater monitoring and whether the operator has found groundwater contamination from coal ash. In the map, Toxic Metal Contamination is per formal industry disclosures. Based on groundwater data available for 265 plants, 91 percent of these plants are contaminating groundwater with

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• Many coal sludge impoundments have weak walls, federal

  Apr 24, 2013 · There are 596 coal slurry impoundments in 21 states, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, of which the largest number, 114, are in West ia. That accident contaminated

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• World Socialist Web Site wsws

  The coal slurry disaster of 2000 The story behind the water crisis in Martin County, Kentucky By Carlos Delgado 19 February 2018 The residents of Martin County, Kentucky, like those in so many

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• Is a coal mine pumping the Hopi dry? — High Country News

  Mar 04, 2002 · Is a coal mine pumping the Hopi dry? mixes it 50/50 with crushed coal into a thick, chocolaty slurry, and pumps it 273 miles to Mohave Generating

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• Coal Slurry Catastrophes Continue: West ia Hit With

  Feb 19, 2014 · Coal slurry leak in West ia turns a creek into sludge. Water quality specialists taking samples from Fields Creek. Cleanup continues from earlier spill that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 West ia residents. Duke Energy coal ash spill in North Carolina attributed to a leaking storm water pipe. Up to 82,000 tons of ash and 27 million gallons of tainted water spilled into the

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• Coal''s other dark side: Toxic ash that can poison water

  Workers who cleaned up a huge spill from a coal ash pond in Tennessee in 2008 are still suffering—and dying. The U.S. has 1,400 ash dumps. and contaminants were detected 70 miles downstream.

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• Alabama Power sticks to plan to cover coal ash ponds

  For decades, coal power plants in Alabama and elsewhere used water to flush the ash and some materials captured by pollution control devices into wet lagoons or ponds, usually unlined, for

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• Alberta''s Chief Medical Officer Confirms Toxic Water

  Thank goodness for Dr. James Talbot, Alberta''s chief medical officer of health. After 14 days of stonewalling by the Alberta Government, he released some of the water test results from the gigantic 1 billion litre coal slurry spill into the Athabasca River from the Obed Mountain coal mine near Hinto

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• Pollution Control Guidelines for Coal Refuse Piles and

  With existing knowledge of trace elements in coals and coal cleaning wastes, it may be worthwhile to initiate some research and prototype studies to evaluate the physical effectiveness, comparative environmental impacts, and economics of using clay liners to reduce groundwater contamination from coal refuse piles and slurry ponds. 15

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• The environmental and pollution aspects of coal slurry

  The evidence suggests that the environmental and pollution aspects of coal slurry pipelines as a system are less than alternative transportation modes. Meth ods are suggested to enhance the selection of better design, construction, and operation techniques to provide a balance of engineering, economic, and environmental considerations.

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• Coal Slurry Catastrophes Continue: West ia Hit With

  Feb 19, 2014 · Coal slurry leak in West ia turns a creek into sludge. Water quality specialists taking samples from Fields Creek. Cleanup continues from earlier spill that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 West ia residents. Duke Energy coal ash spill in North Carolina attributed to a leaking storm water pipe. Up to 82,000 tons of ash and 27 million gallons of tainted water spilled into the

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• World Socialist Web Site wsws

  The coal slurry disaster of 2000 The story behind the water crisis in Martin County, Kentucky By Carlos Delgado 19 February 2018 The residents of Martin County, Kentucky, like those in so many

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• Behind West ia''s Massive Chemical Spill, A History

  Jan 22, 2014 · That was until mass injection of coal slurry made the well water there run yellow, orange and black, and water testing revealed concentrations of

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• ''That''s Vinegar'': The Ohio River''s History Of

  Nov 15, 2019 · Experts estimate nearly 70 percent of drinking water is lost while contaminants in the soil and groundwater are allowed to leach into the system. In coal

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• Coal Ash Emergency Plans Are Now Public, But Residents

  May 25, 2017 · And though it wasn''t coal ash, a similar spill of 300 million gallons of coal slurry in Martin County, Kentucky in 2000 polluted hundreds of miles of river and contaminated the water supply for

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• US6544425B2 Method for dewatering coal tailings and

  US6544425B2 US09/788,151 US78815101A US6544425B2 US 6544425 B2 US6544425 B2 US 6544425B2 US 78815101 A US78815101 A US 78815101A US 6544425 B2 US6544425 B2 US 6544425B2 Authority US United States Prior art keywords water contaminants coal tank method Prior art date 20010216 Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion.

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• Alberta''s Chief Medical Officer Confirms Toxic Water

  Thank goodness for Dr. James Talbot, Alberta''s chief medical officer of health. After 14 days of stonewalling by the Alberta Government, he released some of the water test results from the gigantic 1 billion litre coal slurry spill into the Athabasca River from the Obed Mountain coal mine near Hinto

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• Toxins Found Near Almost All Coal Ash Ponds Tracked by

  Mar 04, 2019 · Environmental watchdogs say the power industry''s own data show widespread groundwater contamination near sites storing coal ash, a toxic byproduct of burning coal

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• Coal and Water Pollution Union of Concerned Scientists

  Dec 06, 2017 · Coal mining. Mining operations can negatively impact water supplies, often with longlasting effects. The fundamental issue involves contamination of nearby rivers, lakes, and aquifers by what comes out of a coal mine—usually highly acidic water containing heavy metals like arsenic, copper, and lead. The process is known as acid mine drainage happens when certain substances (typically

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• Good River: Stories of the Ohio, history of contamination

  Dec 26, 2019 · On Oct. 11, 2000, 300 million gallons of coal slurry broke through a reservoir in Martin County, Kentucky, flooding the abandoned mine shafts below and

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• Recovering heavy metals and rare earth elements from fly

  On December 22, 2008, the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston Fossil Plant spilled 1.1 billion gallons of coal fly ash slurry. River testing of the contaminated area showed high levels of toxic metals (including arsenic, copper, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel, and thallium).

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• Behind West ia''s Massive Chemical Spill, A History

  On top of the water pollution from the mountaintop removal sites, Shepherd''s kids — all born into poverty and firstgeneration college bound — live in the same valley with some of the nation''s largest coal slurry impoundments, which are massive toxic lakes used to dispose of coal waste. West ia has more slurry impoundments than

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• Coalwater slurries containing petrochemicals to solve

  Feb 01, 2018 · Coalwater slurries containing petrochemicals to solve problems of air pollution by coal thermal power stations and boiler plants: An introductory review. Dmitrienko MA(1), Strizhak PA(2). Author information: (1)National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk 634050, Russia.

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• Coal''s other dark side: Toxic ash that can poison water

  Workers who cleaned up a huge spill from a coal ash pond in Tennessee in 2008 are still suffering—and dying. The U.S. has 1,400 ash dumps. and contaminants were detected 70 miles downstream.

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• Mingo County Residents Settle Massey Coal Slurry

  Mingo County Residents Settle Massey Coal Slurry Contamination Lawsuit In late July, hundreds of Mingo County residents settled a sevenyearold lawsuit. They had sued Massey Energy, saying the billions of gallons of coal prep plant waste (slurry) the company injected underground contaminated their well water, resulting in massive health

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• Coal''s other dark side: Toxic ash that can poison water

  Workers who cleaned up a huge spill from a coal ash pond in Tennessee in 2008 are still suffering—and dying. The U.S. has 1,400 ash dumps. and contaminants were detected 70 miles downstream.

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