SCE&G Relents, Will Add Liner

After significant pressure from area residents and farmers, the South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) has announced that it will add a geosynthetic liner to its proposed 140-acre ash landfill southeast of Columbia. The waste disposal facility is to be constructed in order to bury the by-products new pollution controls established at a coal-fired power plant. As this case shows, greater interest in “clean coal” technology may lead to better environmental controls (particularly for groundwater protection) for private industry waste facilities.