Archive for KLPW – Environmental
Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on May 2, 2014
Update Story Posted by Jane Porter on The Indy onThu, May 1, 2014 at 4:44 PM
Last week Tom Reeder, the director of DENR’s Division of Water Resources, emphatically told lawmakers that no coal ash deposits have been found to date in
Kerr Lake.
“There’s been a lot of anecdotal reporting about ash in Kerr Lake,†Reeder said at an Environmental Review Commission meeting.
He added …
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on May 1, 2014
Over 100 people crowded into a Henderson library late last week with one subject on their
collective minds…coal ash in Kerr Lake.Deborah Ferruccio, a Kerr Lake enthusiast and activist and others felt they needed a forum and to see if there are common bonds moving forward on
securing more information about the ramifications of coal ash in Kerr Lake and in securing cleanup and reparation from Duke Power, the originator of the spill of …
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on April 20, 2014
The following is a guest article/news release sent to Kerr Lake Park Watch from a group of Kerr Lake area
citizens concerned about coal ash headed by Deborah Ferruccio.
Local citizens are joining with concerned environmental and civic groups in a meeting Thursday evening in Henderson, NC to form a coalition for the purpose of monitoring and cleaning up Kerr Lake
waters in light of the coal ash spill several months ago.The organizational meeting of …
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on April 19, 2014
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Ok, coal ash is in Kerr Lake. We’ve known that since mid-February. We simply want an “official in the know” not any opportunistic politician, to tell us Kerr Lake IS or IS NOT safe
for human recreational interaction. PUSH your local, state and/or federal representative to demand the answer. You are a citizen. It’s about time you acted like one and become involved! …
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on April 18, 2014
The NC DENR bosses are pushing the Director of the Division of Water Resources to soften his remarks that coal ash
is in Kerr Lake. Tom Reeder, who Kerr Lake Park Watch interviewed about two months ago, who said coal ash was in the upper convergence waters of Kerr Lake, is getting pressure from
his bosses to recant that.
As usual, most involved agencies claim they are studying or testing Kerr …
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