Open AccessA North Carolina Lake’s Long Legacy of Coal Ash Spills
Author(s) -
Mary Morton
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo127227
Subject(s) - coal , environmental science , oil spill , hydrology (agriculture) , archaeology , oceanography , mining engineering , waste management , earth science , geology , geography , environmental engineering , engineering , geotechnical engineering
A new case study suggests that Sutton Lake has been contaminated by multiple coal ash spills, most of them apparently unmonitored and unreported.