Newlead Holdings Ltd. (fka NEWLF)

[GaryJPalys]

$NEWL does have the coal wash plant, but even that they can't do right! $110,000 penalty!

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/08/28/3400443/coal-company-fines-total-245000.html

Prep plants are used to wash coal.

The plant, once known as the Viking plant, is now called the Coal Essence plant. Federal records list NewLead Holdings Ltd. as the current controller of the plant, which has been in operation since at least the mid-1970s.

The EPA cited several alleged violations at the plant after inspecting it in May and July 2012.

Regulators charged that the plant had an unpermitted drainage point into Hopkins Creek; that it did not report some information on water-monitoring reports; that berms required to control runoff were eroded; that the company hadn't properly controlled coal dust and coal waste that could be washed into the creek; and that it had discharged higher levels of manganese, iron and other contaminants than allowed.

EPA inspectors saw dark-brown and black stormwater runoff from the plant flowing into Hopkins Creek on one visit, according to the settlement agreement.

The agreement stated that the plant operator has since put a better management plan in place and has submitted photos and information that indicate that it has made changes designed to protect the stream.

The company did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement but agreed to pay a $110,000 penalty.

Cummins said Kentucky inspectors cited the plant operator over a separate alleged instance of fouling the creek with black water in April 2013.

That notice of violation is pending, he said.

The period for people to submit comments on the two proposed settlements with EPA is open. For information or to submit a comment, go to EPA.gov/region4/water/wpeb/npdes_states.html, and click on Kentucky.

Read more here: www.kentucky.com/2014/08/28/3400443/coal-company-fines-total-245000.html#storylink=cpy