As Kentucky regulators and utilities are pushing to loosen regulations on the state’s coal ash ponds and landfills, more pollution problems are emerging at one of the sites in central Kentucky. Over the past six years, documents show contaminated water including arsenic and selenium flowed from the ash pond at the E.W. Brown Power Station directly into Herrington Lake, a popular spot near Danville.
Despite remedial measures taken by Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities, the pollution persists. And now, fish tissue sampling has revealed the ash pond’s selenium runoff has poisoned aquatic life in the lake. WFPL’s Erica Peterson has more.
