Coal Ash Dump Ordered to Clean Contaminated Arundel Water
posted 6:01 am Wed August 08, 2007 - Gambrills, MD
The company was also fined, although state officials haven't disclosed the amount of the fine.
Cancer-causing metals were discovered last fall in almost two dozen wells in the Gambrills area. The finding led Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold to seek a ban on fly ash, which is produced by coal-burning power plants.
The dump receives coal ash from Baltimore Gas and Electric, which has used the site to dispose of the waste since the middle 1990s.
Critics say the state allowed BGE to dump at the site, and expand that dumping, without properly testing its effects.
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Information from: The (Baltimore) Sun
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