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This is a list of Superfund sites in Kentucky designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The Glen Lily Landfill is an inactive municipal solid waste landfill located in unincorporated Warren County, Kentucky northwest of the city of Bowling Green. The landfill accepted residential and industrial waste from 1975 to 1979; [ 1 ] after being idled, carcinogenic pollutants were found to be leaching into nearby groundwater . [ 2 ]
The entrance to the Maxey Flats Low-Level Radioactive Waste site in Maxey Flat, Kentucky, USA. Taken in 2003 before the sign was removed by Homeland Security. The Maxey Flats disposal site is located on a plateau in northeastern Kentucky, approximately 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Morehead. It is part of Fleming County.
A desperate search is under way for a missing Tennessee teenager with autism, with investigators now extending their efforts across state lines to a Kentucky landfill.. Sebastian Rogers, 15 ...
Map showing location of Martin County in Kentucky Wolf Creek on October 22, 2000. The Martin County coal slurry spill was a mining accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000, when the bottom of a coal slurry impoundment owned by Massey Energy in Martin County, Kentucky, broke into an abandoned underground mine below. [1]
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The five Kentucky counties that remain at medium levels of COVID-19 are concentrated in the eastern half of the state. See the map here. More Kentucky counties report low COVID-19 levels, but 5 ...
On February 13, 1981, a series of explosions destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of sewer lines and streets in the center of Louisville in Kentucky, United States. [1] [2] [3] The explosions resulted in extensive damage to property and infrastructure; there were no fatalities, but four people were injured.