Tonight at 6:00 p.m., Conway Middle School will host another public forum concerning Louisville Gas & Electric’s bid to expand its coal ash storage pond — which contains hazardous byproducts generated by the combustion of coal — in Louisville’s chemically afflicted Rubbertown neighborhood.
The administrative portion of LG&E’s application has been accepted, and tonight’s hearing will focus on the technical aspects of the 60 acre, 14-story ash pond expansion, which will further endanger the nearby neighborhood of Riverside Gardens — and the city-at-large — with the prospect of a Kingston TVA-like ash slurry spill.
Representatives from the Kentucky Division of Solid Waste, the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Protection Agency will attend the meeting, which will be in a question-and-answer format.
Conway Middle School is located at 6300 Terry Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The meeting will last until 9:oo p.m.
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If Meador ever bothered to fact check, it’s not a 14 story pond, it’s a landfill. There’s a big difference there.
Also, where is LEO’s story on the Sierra Club not supporting Green for Mayor? Dare they offend that group?
Local Yokel,
“The proposed 60-acre, $54 million dump would eventually extend as high as a 14-story building in an area now largely occupied by transmission lines. Power company officials have said an existing landfill at the plant will run out of room in about three years.” (Source: The Courier Journal, http://blogs.courier-journal.com/watchdogearth/2010/05/20/cane-run-plant-hearing/)
How can LG&E pay you when you aren’t even in the city limits, “Local” Yokel?
When you’re at the hearing tonight, Meador, ask the state what the difference is so your reporting is accurate.
Actually there’s a megastory coal mountain dry ash landfill to the left of my house, the “high hazard” coal ash pond is right across the street in front of my house, and they are wanting to build another megastory dry ash landfill to the right. I have heard there will be litigation if it is approved. I have also been told that LG&E should have notified the neighborhood of a contingency plan if the pond were to breach (50 ft from my house), but they haven’t done it, and most of the people that I have talked to (I’m trying to get some type of organization going on with the neighborhood) don’t even know there is this huge threat yards from their houses. I’m going to be sure that most people know about it anyway. At least Meador cares about people, a lot of people get confused unless you live right across the street from it like me.