Big Sandy Plant's Fly Ash surface impoundment is on the EPA's official June 2009 list of Coal Combustion Residue ( CCR ) Surface Impoundments with High Hazard Potential Ratings.
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The unnamed company dumped liquid DDT manufacturing waste into an unlined surface impoundment and discharged up to 20, 000 gallons daily for 20 years into the public sewer system, she said.
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TSDFs manage ( treat, store, or dispose ) hazardous waste in units that may include : container storage areas, tanks, surface impoundments, waste piles, land treatment units, landfills, incinerators, containment buildings, and / or drip pads.
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This power plant is designated as having Coal Combustion Residue Surface Impoundments with a High Hazard Potential by the EPA . In 2012 a Duke University study found high levels of arsenic and other toxins in North Carolina lakes and rivers downstream from the Asheville power plants coal ash ponds.
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In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste ( CCW ) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.
