Cinder Runoff
This picture shows the cinders running off the road that is feeding a creek.
The road is totally covered with cinders at this point. Cinders can
contain1,2 an array of metals and other elements, such as arsenic, beryllium, boron,
cadmium, chromium, chromium VI, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum,
selenium, strontium, thallium, and vanadium, along with dioxins and PAH
compounds, in quantities that can potentially be harmful to human health or the
environment. Risks can occur when these contaminants enter the drinking water
supplies or surface water bodies, or reach plants and animals. Click on More Cinders to see additional
pictures of road conditions.
1. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment of Coal Combustion
Wastes, RTI, Research Triangle Park, August 6, 2007, prepared for the US
Environmental Protection Agency.
Link
2. Managing Coal Combustion Residues in Mines, Committee on Mine Placement of
Coal Combustion Wastes, National Research Council of the National Academies,
2006.
Link
Wetzel County Action Group