Fly ash Archive

Water-test discrepancies leave residents in limbo

CHESAPEAKE In early October, Robyn Pierce got a call from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with what should have been good news. " 'Your lead levels came back normal,' " she recalled. Pierce was perplexed.

Chesapeake to spend up to $6M on water to homes near course

CHESAPEAKE The City Council on Tuesday agreed to spend up to $6 million committed by Dominion Virginia Power to extend public water to residents who live near Battlefield Golf Club.

Chesapeake council faces $6 million decision in fly ash case

CHESAPEAKE On Tuesday, the City Council will vote whether to make an emergency appropriation of $6 million to extend public water to people who live near the Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville.

Residents near Chesapeake golf course fear fly ash runoff

CHESAPEAKE Karen Fox is no stranger to fly ash, or to flooding. She and her family live on Murray Drive in a roughly 40-home community on a single street just south of Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville. Their well is in the backyard.

A vital first step at fly ash course

Dominion Virginia Power could have balked at the idea that it should pay for some of the consequences of Chesapeake's boneheaded decision in 2001 to build a golf course with fly ash. Fortunately, the company has declared that it would pay the costs of extending city water to homes near the golf course, placing a down payment of several million dollars on a solution to the mess.

Dominion offers to pay $4M to $6M to extend city water

CHESAPEAKE A Dominion Virginia Power executive told residents living near a golf course made of fly ash that it would pay the $4 million to $6 million that city officials preliminarily have estimated it will cost to extend city water to affected residents.

Chesapeake wants Dominion to help pay for fly-ash fallout

CHESAPEAKE Two days after the wheels were set in motion to bring public water to people who live near a golf course constructed of fly ash, city officials identified several what it termed potential “responsible parties” that should help pay for it.

DEQ officials gather to discuss how to regulate fly-ash use

GLEN ALLEN The state Department of Environmental Quality took another step Wednesday toward the possible toughening of regulations governing coal-ash projects like Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville.

Officials move to extend city water near golf course

CHESAPEAKE Mayor Alan Krasnoff asked the city manager on Tuesday night to take steps toward extending public water to neighborhoods that surround a golf course sculpted from 1.5 million tons of fly ash.

GRAPHIC: Test wells at the Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville