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From Wikipedia
The Martin County Sludge Spill was an accident that occurred after
midnight on October 11, 2000 when the bottom of a
coal sludge impoundment owned by
Massey Energy in
Martin County, Kentucky, USA, broke into an abandoned underground mine
below. The slurry came out of the mine openings, sending an estimated 306
million gallons (1.16 billion liters) of sludge down two tributaries of the
Tug Fork River. By morning, Wolf Creek was
oozing with the black waste; on Coldwater Fork, a ten-foot (3 m) wide stream
became a 100-yard (91 m) expanse of thick sludge.
The spill was over five feet deep in places and covered nearby residents'
yards. The spill polluted hundreds of miles (300 - 500 km) of the Big Sandy
River and its tributaries and the Ohio River. The water supply for over 27,000
residents was contaminated, and all aquatic life in Coldwater Fork and Wolf
Creek was killed. The spill was 30 times larger than the
Exxon
Valdez oil spill (12 million gallons) and one of the worst environmental
disasters ever in the
southeastern United States, according to the
United States Environmental Protection Agency.[citation
needed] The spill was exceeded in volume by the
Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill in 2008.
Link to more info:
http://www.ohvec.org/links/news/archive/2004/fair_use/10_11.html
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