Little Blue 2 Traditional Cache
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Tucked into steep-sided valleys along the Ohio River and spanning the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border, the 130-acre "Little Blue Run" lake was opened in 1975 to store coal-combustion waste from the 2,490-megawatt Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant in Shippingport, 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. The power plant burns 7 million tons of coal annually and is connected to Little Blue by a seven-mile underground pipe that carries 625,000 tons of fly ash and bottom ash to the reservoir each year.
Little Blue is one of seven permitted coal ash disposal reservoirs in the state but the only one in the southwestern region.
The reservoir was scheduled to close in 2008. But after getting state approval in 2006 to make the impoundment up to 62 feet higher by stacking coal ash behind small dikes built on top of already solidified ash, its closing date was pushed back until 2031 or beyond.
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