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Residents and advocates press City Council for stronger oversight after EPA consent decree for CWLP coal ash ponds
Summary
Brandon Durman, speaking for the Coalition for Springfield’s Utility Future, told the Springfield City Council on March 4 that CWLP has “been alarmingly far out of compliance with environmental laws” and urged stronger oversight after a U.S. EPA consent decree.
Brandon Durman, speaking for the Coalition for Springfield’s Utility Future, told the Springfield City Council on March 4 that the public utility City Water, Light & Power (CWLP) has “been alarmingly far out of compliance with environmental laws” and urged council oversight after a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency consent decree.
Durman said the consent decree lists repeated failures at CWLP’s coal ash ponds, including insufficient monitoring wells, use of contaminated wells as background samples and persistent arsenic detections. “CWLP found arsenic contamination in almost every sampling event from May 2018 to January 2023,” he said, and added that a February…
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