The photo of the beach where the coal ash waste was dumped looks like a nice green hill. How dangerous could that be?
It was a nice, non-toxic green hill before the illegal dumping. Residents frequented it for launching their boats, recreation and other uses until 2004 when it began to be filled with mountains of toxic coal ash. Photos today or what appears to be a verdant natural beachside hill do not show how that greenery is growing over mounds of toxic coal ash in many sizes, from large rocks, to smaller rocks, to pebbles, to dust, down to a coating of matted down toxic coal ash. In the past six years much of the friable (aerosolized) material has blown into the homes of Samana residents. The green weeds growing above the coal ash are not people since the plants appear to be immune to the heavy metals and other toxic properties of the dumped material.
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