Ask Illinois EPA and Dynegy’s Havana Power Plant for responsible coal ash disposal and closure of high hazard ash ponds.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has tentatively decided to reissue a permit to Dynegy’s Havana Power Plant that would allow additional mercury and other harmful pollution found in coal ash to be discharged into the Illinois River. Dynegy wants to continue dumping its coal ash in a 96-acre wet impoundment that is upland of the town of Havana, instead of converting to a safer dry landfill as other Illinois power plants have done.
The Havana coal ash pond is larger than the ash impoundment that failed in 2008 at the TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant sending over 1 billion gallons of coal ash slurry into the Clinch and Emory Rivers.
If you are concerned about water pollution, healthy fish, and threats to public health and safety, please attend the Public Hearing:
Tuesday November 8, 2011 6 p.m.
Occasions Banquet Facility, 301 West Main Street, Havana, Illinois
Tell Illinois EPA and Dynegy:
- Thank you for new air pollution control equipment ‐ we don’t want to breathe dirty air!
- Now, take that pollution and dispose of it responsibly. No coal ash toxins in our river!
- We use and enjoy the river where water from the coal ash ponds is being dumped. We eat the fish, we draw our income from the river, we recreate on the river. Keep our Illinois River clean!
- Invest your earnings in pollution control. Build a safe, lined landfill.
- We live downhill from the ash pond storing nearly 1 billion gallons of hazardous coal ash.
- We are threatened by the coal ash pond ‐ inspect it, fix it, then close it down!
View flyer for more information.
If you cannot attend the hearing, please email your comments urging the closure of the Havana ash pond to IEPA Hearing Officer Dean Studer at <Dean.Studer@illinois.gov> and specify Havana Power Station NPDES in subject line by midnight, December 8, 2011. Comments postmarked by December 8th, 2011 may be sent to:
Hearing Officer Dean Studer
Re: Havana Power Station NPDES
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P. O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
