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Plans to build a fly ash recycling facility at Mirant Mid-Atlantic’s Morgantown plant on the Potomac River are receiving mixed reviews from the community.
On the one hand, an effort to 100 percent recycle the toxic byproduct of burning coal to produce electricity is great news because currently the stuff is trucked to landfills in Faulkner and Brandywine where, despite the best efforts of the company, it leaches into the groundwater, community activists said.
In fact, the Maryland Department of the Environment has a pending lawsuit in Charles County Circuit Court in La Plata that calls for closing the Faulkner plant that has been open since 1970, according to Jay Apperson, MDE spokesman. The lawsuit, which is tentatively scheduled to be heard April 2 in La Plata, also calls for the site to be cleaned up, he said.
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