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Almost Home by Don Kalkman Via Flickr: Amtrak 52 rolls along the RF&P at Possum Point, Virginia on the morning of August 4, 1990. A trio of P30CHs pulled a hell of a lot of Heritage Equipment north nearing the Lorton terminal. 

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RFP1041 by Stanley Short Via Flickr: CSX train P052, Amtrak's "Auto Train," rolls north on the RF&P Subdivision at Possum Point, VA on Nov. 7, 1993 with P40's No's. 828 and 808. That is Quantico Creek off to the right and auto racks in the shadows on the rear are crossing the Quantico Creek bridge.

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Coal Ash -- An Unacceptable Gamble

Coal Ash — An Unacceptable Gamble

If you live in or near Prince William County, Virginia, or care about the environment, there is a pending solid waster permit decision in March by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) that may allow Dominion Power to bury 4 million tons of coal ash at Possum Point in an impoundment that is leaching highly toxic…

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Recently, a number of residents on Possum Point Road discovered varying lead levels in their water after having their wells tested by different entities. The recent news of Dominion Virginia Power’s plans to close their coal ash ponds at their Possum Point Facility has raised concern of whether the lead might be the result of the coal ash leaching lead into the ground water.

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Possum Point treating water for arsenic, lead.

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A $35-million-dollar water treatment system separates Quantico Creek from the arsenic and lead found in the untreated coal ash water at Possum Point Power Station. “Until you see the whole process, I don’t think you will understand what we’re trying to accomplish,” said Chet Wade, the vice president of corporate communications at Dominion Virginia Power before a tour of the system Tuesday morning. The company invited the media and Eileen Thrall, the head of Friends of Quantico Bay, to tour the Dumfries’ station to see how the system works on Tuesday, May 3.

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The thing about the state regulations Dominion mentioned is that they don't amount to much. While coal companies are also draining coal ash waste pits in North Carolina, those discharges are heavily monitored -- thanks in part to EPA insisting that permits be updated or reissued. That has not happened in Virgina. So, file the last sentence from the excerpt under "PR speak."

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It's rarely good to quarrel with your neighbor, but right is right. What level-headed person thinks dumping polluted water into your backyard is OK? Dominion Virginia Power, and Virginia's water quality agency, apparently. In January, the state granted the energy company a permit to release 215 million gallons of potentially toxic water into Quantico Creek, which feeds the Potomac River.

For its part, Dominion says its plan to drain the treated water from five coal ash ponds situated at its Possum Point power station meets all applicable federal and state regulations.

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The state water control board received more than 500 public comments on the permit change for the Possum Point impoundment near where Quantico Creek flows into the Potomac River. Commenters and nearly 20 public agencies expressed concerns over the impact of toxic contamination on aquatic life and the humans that consume fish from the local waters, among other issues.

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Fight in Northern Virginia led to discovery of a drain that, critics say, sends contaminated water to a creek.

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Advocates fighting Dominion’s proposal last year exposed the existence of a drain near the largest coal-ash pond at the Possum Point Power Plant in Prince William County, which environmentalists say has been discharging contaminated, untreated water into Quantico Creek.