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Freedom Industries contractors began the demolition process at the site of a January chemical leak that tainted the water supply of 300,000 West Virginians. Contractors knocked out a wall and ripped piping materials from the tanks Tuesday.
Freedom Chief Restructuring Officer Mark Welch said four tanks will remain up to store stormwater and waste at the site until their contents are removed. He said, at that point, the contents will be removed and those tanks will be torn down at the end of the process.
Welch says Tank No. 396, which is the tank that stored MCHM and leaked into the river on January 9, will be demolished sometime next week.
Here are some images of the site just before and during the initial phases of the demolition process:
The Woodside Fire started Nov. 5 on private property in Pendleton County before spreading to 70 acres in the Monongahela National Forest.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Kentucky Public Service Commission should reject Kentucky Power’s plan to keep its half of the Mitchell plant past 2028 according to Devi Glick, an energy analyst with Synapse Energy Economics said.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMiners hit a previously unknown pocket of water inside the Rolling Thunder Mine in Drennen, West Virginia Saturday. Working miners escaped the flooding mine, but one did not make it out.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEmergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said.
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