Leaking Ash Pond in Kentucky

Monitoring wells indicate that as much as 1,200 pounds of sulfates a day are escaping through the bottom of a power company’s coal ash pond. The pond lacks a geosynthetic liner and dates to the mid-1970s. A recent report, “Slow Motion Spills,” found that all eight coal ash ponds in Kentucky located near monitoring wells were polluting groundwater. An additional 36 ash ponds do not even have water quality monitors.