Coal Ash Ponds

Water pollution is measured in parts per million and the current watchdogs like Sierra and even EPA have been caught overstating their case. So, what we need is water treatment that removes the nasty chemicals that are being reported as found in coal ash ponds.

What is available information about coal ash pollution is missing some important facts. If we receive our drinking water from a municipal water system, we assume that their water treatment plants remove all harmful chemicals or at least reduce them to levels that do us no harm. To be sure, we need to test the water.  If we receive our drinking water from our own wells that are not first routed to water treatment plants we need to test the water.

The claim that the nasty sounding chemicals “that have been found” in the water near coal ponds fails to reveal the parts per million of these chemicals. All of these chemicals are naturally occurring minerals found in the ground. Some of these chemicals were sprayed out of airplanes in “chem-trails” by the US geological service as part of the HAARP weather weapon tests.

The claim that they cause cancer, heart disease, respiratory diseases and stroke is hard to believe. Remember, these are the same guys who started the global warming hoax.

Coal ash is the toxic waste formed from burning coal in power plants to make electricity. The second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S., coal ash is linked to the country's four leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and stroke. Hundreds of contaminated sites and spills have been documented among the 1,400+ coal ash waste dumps across the country.

We can’t trust government to be very vigilant to protect our water quality. They failed to replace the lead water pipes and people did get lead poisoning from their water.

I pulled the following paragraphs from the internet and they all sound like propaganda, because none of them make a convincing case. There are no parts per million measurements and no identifiable injured victims with maladies you can trace to these chemicals and no way to prove that dangerous levels of these chemicals are in the water we drink.

Most coal ash landfills and ponds do not conduct monitoring, so the majority of water contamination goes undetected. According to U.S. EPA, there are over 1,000 operating coal ash landfills and ponds and many hundreds of "retired" coal ash disposal sites.

Toxic coal ash ponds pose acute threats to America's major rivers and lakes. Coal ash is highly toxic, containing pollutants that can damage the circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems and lead to neurological and reproductive problems.- Apr 30, 2018

Regardless of the by-product produced, there are many toxic substances that are present in coal ash that can cause major health problems in humans. Some toxic constituents that are found in coal ash are arsenic, boron, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, thallium and uranium.

The culprits here are the electric power companies who operate coal plants. I’m sure they are no the job to resolve this and will resist the “bums rush” tactics used by the environmentalists until they can figure out their real liability.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader