An environmental testing firm finished collecting water samples Saturday at homes near a golf course constructed with 1.5 million tons of fly ash, a Chesapeake official said.
The company obtained samples from 12 homes on Murray Drive and Whittamore Road, city spokeswoman Lizz Gunnufsen said.
Residents living near the Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville learned Thursday that high levels of arsenic, lead and other contaminants were found in groundwater monitoring wells at the course. Fly ash is a residue left from the burning of coal for electricity.
The testing firm began collecting residential samples Friday to discern whether water serving homes near the golf course has been affected. Results from testing done in April showed no signs of contamination at the homes.
Results from this latest round of water tests are expected in three weeks, Gunnufsen said.
Hattie Brown Garrow, (757) 222-5562, hattie.brown@pilotonline.com
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Local Governments and the Hazards of Flyash
Our Board of Supervisors have not taken a stand against flyash dumps. For information on another group in Virginia that is dealing with the pitfalls of flyash, visit this website: concernedgilescitizens.org
American Electric Power (AEP) entered into an agreement with the Partnerships for Excellence (a school foundation)to dump flyash on the banks of the New River in Narrows, VA and we are fighting to stop the insanity. The New River was proclaimed a Heritage River in 1997 and you would think that it would e protected at all costs, but money trumps all!
The stats for the county where I live (Giles is located in the southwestern part of the State) is mindboggling. This information alone should be enough for any politicians say "NO" to flyash.
Also, to see the statistics for your area checkout the site of the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): atsdr.gov
Fly Ash
Do we have to wait for test results to do what must be done? Is'nt it too late to begin to remove millions of tons of contamination only after we see dangerouse levels of poisons in a drinking water supply? At what round of testing do we recognize the fact that the contaminates that are leaching into our aquifer from millions of tons of Fly Ash must be removed. Oh yeah - who's gooing to take it? How about being as proactive about protecting the community as some were about "developing" the community by presenting and acting on a plan to remove this hazardous waste. And by the way, looking beyond community, how about the State stop recieving this hazardous waste from states that have already been down this road. What's pathetic is that a laymans search over the internet will turn up many references to Fly Ash concerns as wel as class action suits taken against its use.