Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 17:08:13 -0400
From: Judy Hogan
Subject: coal ash problem
Hi, all, I’ve noticed two posts about coal ash pollution in our Chatham rivers recently on the chatlist.
I met with representatives from Duke Energy on Thursday , May 7, evening at the end of their event, which started at 4:30 and ended at 7:30 at Moncure School in Moncure. About ten staff people stayed to talk to me when I said I was very upset about the dumping of coal ash into my drinking water. The event was advertised through ads in the Chatham News/Record and also in Chatham County Line, but I’d been out of town, and I learned about it Thurs AM from emails, and misread that it was at 7:30. I’ve written a blog about my experience last Thursday on my blog address below.
Also the Feb 26 issue of Indyweek.com has an in-depth article about the history of Duke Energy trying to get away with not cleaning up their coal ash ponds. Per Elaine Chiosso, the Haw River Keeper, there are five ponds near the old Cape Fear coal-burning plant on the Cape Fear River, just above where those of us in Southeast Chatham get our water, because we get it from Sanford here, and that’s the intake for Sanford. Duke was fined by the Dept of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for pumping 61 million gallons of coal ash waste water from theponds into a stream that flows into the Cape Fear River.
They were photographed from the air by the state organization of River Keepers. The the Duke Energy staff I talked to wouldn’t admit that it happened or that the intake was below where the wastewater was pumped. NC Warn. ncwarn.org and Haw River Assembly hawriver.org will have more details.
Judy Hogan, Moncure.
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