Harmful Wastewater Discharged into Alabama Bay

By: Clean Skies News, Published: 02/08/10 1:03pm

Liquid Environmental Solutions, a wastewater processing company in Mobile, Alabama has stopped accepting shipments of runoff wastewater from an Alabama landfill that is receiving coal ash.

The ash, laced with arsenic, mercury and some other heavy metals, is left over from TVA's 2008 coal ash spill.

After being treated by the processing company, the wastewater then was routed through the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System and discharged into Mobile Bay.

Some residents are up in arms.

The Dallas-based company's Senior Vice President, Dana King, said that the shipments have been stopped due to local concerns, even though the company has "properly accepted, tested and treated the non-hazardous Perry County landfill wastewater."

A Florida environmental lawyer has filed a notice of intent to sue the operators of the treatment plant on behalf of local residents.

A spokesman for TVA says the decision by Liquid Environmental Solutions to stop accepting the wastewater is something that will have to be worked out between its contract disposal company and the co-owner of the landfill.