Coal Slurry- Waste Water And Chemicals

around Kayford Mountain, West Virginia, USA

Mined coal must be washed with water and processed with chemicals to prepare it for market. This leaves tremendous volumes of fine, wet “slurry” (toxic mud) which is stored in impoundments held behind earthen dams built across valley openings. On numerous occasions, these containment structures have failed, releasing large quantities of this toxic slurry which has inundated and devastated the valleys below the dams, killing people and washing away houses.

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