KENTUCKY MINE
March 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
A MINE operation in Kentucky that saw a major slurry spill in the autumn of 2000 failed to properly follow a plan that had been implemented after a disaster six years earlier, according to a recently released report.
On October 11, 2000, an estimated 306 million gallons of water and coal slurry drained from the Martin County Coal Corporation's Big Branch impoundment into an adjacent underground mine and entered local watersheds. No personal injuries were reported but the slurry affected over 75 miles of streams in Kentucky and West Virginia, with ...
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