1. “We are all down stream”
Maria Gunnoe
www.ohvec,org
www.sludgesafety.org

2. The Big Coal River
joins the Kanawha
River in St Albans

3.  Water is the basis of all life and that includes your body.
Your muscles that move your body are 75% water; your
blood that transport nutrients is 82% water; your lungs
that provide your oxygen are 90% water; your brain that is
the control center of your body is 76% water; even your
bones are 25% water.
 Our health is truly dependent on the quality and quantity
of the water we drink.
 There are 722 references to water in the Bible. Most of
which refer to water as THE Gift of Life…
 In Genesis 1: 1-31 it was water that brought life to all the
moving creature of the earth.

5. Notice
these 2
peaks.
This is the
Spruce 1
permit
Blair
Headwaters of
Pigeon Roost
Holler/ Spruce 1
permit from the
Home of Charles air.
Bella. Flight courtesy of
www.southwings.org

6. Photo by Maria Gunnoe
www.ohvec.org flight
courtesy of
www.southwings.org

7. Asbury Cemetery Bailey
Cemetery
Jarrell Cemetery
Photo by Maria Gunnoe www.ohvec.org flight courtesy of www.southwings.or

8. Photos by Maria Gunnoe www.ohvec.org

9. Coal sludge dams
held back by earth.
Valley fill
Photo by Maria Gunnoe www.ohvec.org

10. Coal waste
running into
The Big coal
River
Coal sludge run
off
Photos courtesy of Vivian
Stockman www.sludgesafety.org

11. Photo by Maria Gunnoe www.ohvec.org
Flight courtesy of www.southwings.org

12.  Slurry not stored above ground is pumped, or
"injected," into abandoned underground mines. Once
underground it can migrate into the groundwater
contaminating local well water, especially when
blasting from surface mining occurs in the area.
Several communities have had their water supply
contaminated by underground injection causing
widespread, often life-threatening illnesses.

14. Toilet Bowl
Toilet tank

16. Water
from a
water
heater.

18.  Chronic exposure to the metals found in coal slurry
can damage virtually every part of the body. Health
problems caused by these metals include intestinal
lesions, neuropathy, kidney and liver failure, cancer,
high blood pressure, brittle bones, miscarriages and
birth defects among others. Studies of the effects of
coal slurry on human cell tissues have found evidence
that coal slurry causes cancerous proliferation, cell
death and damage to kidney cells.

19.  Aniline Diethyl phthalate 1,3-Dichlorobenzene
Acenaphthene Dimethyl phthalate 1,4-Dichlorobenzene
Acenapthylene Dioctylphthalate 2,4-Dinitrotoluene
Anthracene Fluoranthene 2,6-Dinitrotoluene
Benzidine Fluorene 2-Chloronaphtalene
Benzo(a)anthracene Hexachlorobenzene 2-Methylnapthalene
Benzo(a)pyrene Hexachloroethane |2-Nitroaniline
Benzo(b)fluoranthene Indeno(1,2,3-c,d)pyrene 3-3'-Dichlorobenzidine
Benzo(ghi)perylene Isophorone 3-Nitroaniline
Benzo(k)fluoroanthene N-Nitrosodi-n- 4-Bromophenyl phenyl
Benzyl alcohol propylamine ether
bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate N-Nitrosodiphenylamine 4-Chloroaniline
bis(2-chloroethoxy)- Naphthalene 4-Chhlorophenyl phenyl
methane Nitrobenzene ether
bis(2-chloroethyl)ether Phenanthrene 4-Nitroaniline
bis(2- Pyrene
chloroisopropyl)ether Acrylamide
Butyl benzyl phthalate Hexachloro-1,3-Butadiene
Chrysene Hexa-Cl-1,3- (When we ask what
Dibenzo(a,h)anthraceneDi Cyclopentadiene was in coal sludge we
benzofuran 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene
Dibutyl phtalate 1,2-Dichlorobenzene were told it was
“trade secret” )

20. 1183 acres of mountaintop
removal coal mining
Valley fill
Maria Gunnoe’s home & Big Branch Creek

21. Before MTR
mining.
After
MTR
Mining
Photos by the late James Foster of
Bob White WV.

22. Photos by Maria Gunnoe www.ohvec.org

23. A new and an old internal
facet valve.

26. Jimmy ‘s home
Spruce mine permit
Pigeon Roost Holler is
currently beautiful..
Lets keep it that way!

27.  Call Senator Joe Manchin and Governor Tomblin let them know that our
“gift of life” from God is our children's “gift of life” and that we as WV
citizens insist that it be protected!
 Contact Address: Governor Earl Ray Tomblin
Office of the Governor
State Capitol
1900 Kanawha Boulevard, East
Charleston, West Virginia 25305
Office Telephone:
(304) 558-2000 or 1-888-438-2731
 Senator Joe Manchin Charleston Office
300 Virginia Street, East
Suite 2630
Charleston, WV 25301
Phone: 304-342-5855
Toll-Free Phone: 855-275-5737 (For residents with a 304 or 681 area code)
Fax: 304-343-7144
 Washington, DC
303 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
Phone: 202-224-3954
Fax: 202-228-0002

28.  Contact Lisa Jackson. She is the Administrator of the EPA.
Let the EPA know that the people of WV support them in
protecting our water and mountains. Let the EPA know
that we support stopping the Spruce 1 permit behind
Jimmy Weekly’s home and ending all mountaintop removal
/valley fill mining. She is taking a major hit from the
industry.
jackson.lisap@epa.gov
USEPA Headquarters
Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Mail Code: 1101A
Washington, DC 20460
Office Phone -202-564-4700
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