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With all of our coalmines that have to put their waste into holding ponds, they had better do something to make sure that it doesn’t end up leaking into our fresh water supply and causing water damage to the landscape and the people in the communities around it. We have several hundred thousand mines that are abandoned mines in our country alone, not counting the ones that are still in use. With all of these mines working and not working, the damages to us and our way of life are becoming closer to causing us problems by way of our health than any of us know or have even had to think about until lately.

Now, we have had a spill from one of these holding tanks that dumped billions of contaminated water and fly ash onto this small nearby neighborhood community by coating some 300 acres after a dike burst at this retention pond. This community of about 200 or more residents flooded this company with questions about the problem that could arise from this in regards to themselves and their livestock. This company told them that they would see to the clean-up, and the EPA said that they found some elevated levels of arsenic in some of the surface water but that they hadn’t found any near the intake of their water treatment plant that supplies the town’s water supply.

All of the mines that we have in our country that were worked in some part of history have left several mounds of waste that most of us didn’t even know were there. These companies were supposed to have cleaned up these sites but a lot of them are still left in the air to dry up, which means that they are sent into our air and can cause all kinds of health problems for us unknowing people. We have bikers groups that have been trying to find places to just go to and ride their bikes without the problems with too many different drivers invading their space and their fun.

Some of these mines might have been marked off at the time they were abandoned but over time, we have gotten closer to these underground tunnels and the dangers of the ground falling in. Some of the markers may have either gotten so rotten that they fell apart and never got put back up as the owners are probably no longer alive. Some of them didn’t have any family members to keep watch over the sites so they were forgotten.