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What about the negative impacts that the coal ash spill has had on my state? What about the coal ash spill in the state adjacent to mine? You can go oh what's a

What about the negative impacts that the coal ash spill has had on my state? What about the coal ash spill in the state adjacent to mine? You can go oh what's a little ash, the sludge had enough volume to fill a football stadium nearly a half-mile high. Coal has environmental impacts, but continuously. A nonstop stream of toxins just flowing right into our local water tables. Nothing compares to the continuous destruction of human lives and environment like coal does.

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> A nonstop stream of toxins just flowing right into our local water tables I thought that sounded familiar. The following is about the Midnight Mine uranium mine in eastern Washington. "The exposed surfaces of rock in the ore piles, waste rock piles, and forming pit walls generate acid rock drainage in the groundwater, seeps, and surface water. The surface water from the mine's drainage basin flows to three drainages which empty into Blue Creek. Blue Creek, which flows into Lake Roosevelt, is home to several fish species of special concern that have been found to contain heavy metals that many link to the contamination from the mine. The U.S. Bureau of Mines and the U.S. Geological Survey indicated that seeps, ground water and pit water at Midnite Mine are contained with heavy metals and radionuclides. In April 1998, the EPA also found elevated levels of metals and radionuclides in numerous on-site sources. Several contaminated ground water seeps were observed to be flowing into nearby surface water drainages."[1] [1] http://toxipedia.org/display/wanmec/Midnite+uranium+mine%2C+Spokane%2C+WA http://toxipedia.org/display/wanmec/Midnite+uranium+mine%2C+... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnite_Mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnite_Mine http://www.webcitation.org/6JeqbINGL http://www.webcitation.org/6JeqbINGL Edit:formatting

brightsize 10y ago

> A nonstop stream of toxins just flowing right into our local water tables I thought that sounded familiar. The following is about the Midnight Mine uranium mine in eastern Washington. "The exposed surfaces of rock in the ore piles, waste rock piles, and forming pit walls generate acid rock drainage in the groundwater, seeps, and surface water. The surface water from the mine's drainage basin flows to three drainages which empty into Blue Creek. Blue Creek, which flows into Lake Roosevelt, is home to several fish species of special concern that have been found to contain heavy metals that many link to the contamination from the mine. The U.S. Bureau of Mines and the U.S. Geological Survey indicated that seeps, ground water and pit water at Midnite Mine are contained with heavy metals and radionuclides. In April 1998, the EPA also found elevated levels of metals and radionuclides in numerous on-site sources. Several contaminated ground water seeps were observed to be flowing into nearby surface water drainages."[1] [1] http://toxipedia.org/display/wanmec/Midnite+uranium+mine%2C+Spokane%2C+WA http://toxipedia.org/display/wanmec/Midnite+uranium+mine%2C+... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnite_Mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnite_Mine http://www.webcitation.org/6JeqbINGL http://www.webcitation.org/6JeqbINGL Edit:formatting