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Brushy Fork Coal Slurry Impoundment

Brushy Fork is coal slurry impoundment.

After the coal is cleaned, the leftover sludge is dumped here.

Brushy Fork, WV Coal Slurry Impoundment
Sludge at Brushy Fork, WV

All photographs used with permission.  www.ohvec.org

Almost 75% of the waterways in West Virginia are polluted.

Slurry impounds like this contribute to the chemical leaching that happens from mines all over the state.

Learn more about water pollution.


Created 2006.5.9. Revised 2006.5.10. AJS

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