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Article: FLY ASH IS A RAW DEAL FOR GILES COUNTY
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- February 10, 2008
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The Cumberland Park fill site is the wrong project in the wrong
place being pushed by the wrong organization. The project should be
put on hold until serious questions about it and its owner -- the
Giles County Partnerships for Excellence Foundation -- are answered.
The project is located in the 100-year flood plain of the New
River, sits above an active fault line and is planned to be home to
nearly 300,000 cubic yards of Appalachian Power Co.'s coal
combustion waste (CCW or "fly ash").
Similar structural fill sites have contaminated streams in
Pennsylvania and groundwater in Maryland, and one site in
neighboring Roanoke County has even become a Superfund site.
Despite its sensitive ...