Appalachian Waterways Need Defending- Appalachian Water Watch

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On March 9, 2011, we announced another 60 day intent to sue Nally & Hamilton Coal Company for more than 12,000 violations of the Clean Water Act at more than a dozen of its operations in 7 eastern Kentucky counties.

The notice letters provide evidence indicating that Nally and Hamilton has filed false and potentially fraudulent, water pollution monitoring data with state agencies over the past three years.

Nally & Hamilton submitted reports in which all effluent data reported for a certain outfall in a certain month repeat exactly the data reported for the same outfall in other months. In other words, the company seems to have cut-and-pasted previous sets of data in later reports rather than monitoring the discharge and submitting accurate data for each month.

The company also repeatedly omitted legally-required data from its reports.

If fined, the maximum allowed under the Clean Water Act could amount to potential penalties of more than $400 million.

Our legal team consists of the plaintiffs Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper, represented by lawyers with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• mountaintop removal
• coal

[heidikellner]

so sad - god bless you all doing something about this - big business and corrupt government officials have no conscious. this has gone on too long already - toxic coal ash, mountains gone, streams polluted. where is the epa? where is the federal government? i feel awful for the people of west virginia - everytime we leave extra lights on were using power we don't need. the only way to slow this down is to take action.

[WVliberty]

private land owners in this state need to organize like our miners did in the early 20th century

[WataugaWaterSentinel]

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