Virtual Flyover of Marsh Fork Elementary School and Environs

October 21, 2006
Photos by Vivian Stockman; Flyover courtesy SouthWings
For permission to use photos, e-mail vivian at ohvec.org

The sludge dam at center of the photo is permitted to 2.8 billion gallons of sludge. Above it you can see some of the 1,849 acre strip mine now in operation. The dam is just 400 yards from the Marsh Fork Elementary School, which is off-photo, beyond the Goals Coal processing plant at bottom right.

Here, beyond the prep plant, the coal silo looms over the elementary school.

Mining beyond the dam.

More of the mining --remember the blasting involved! -- above the dam. Note the silo at mid-photo, right.

Again, beyond the dam, the silo is visible, as is the school grounds.

Note the other mountaintop removal operations in the distance.

Continuing the tour around sludge and mining operations above Marsh Fork Elementary.

The school's ball fields are in the foreground at left.

Recipe for disaster? The elementary school, the coal silo, the coal preparation plant, the dam, the sludge lake and the mountaintop removal.