Virtual Flyover of Marsh Fork Elementary School and Environs

June 14, 2007
Photos by Vivian Stockman; Flyover courtesy SouthWings
For permission to use photos, e-mail vivian at ohvec.org
Higher resolution versions of these photos are available.

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Approaching the area around Marsh Fork Elementary. Here's a view of the mountaintop removal site about the coal sludge dam above the school (school not visible in this photo). The mine's permit is for 1,849 acres. The sludge dam is permitted to 2.8 billion gallons of sludge. The dam is just 400 yards from the Marsh Fork Elementary School, and the Goals Coal processing plant sits very close to the school.

Note the top of the coal silo, visible in about the center of the photo. The silo is under 200 feet from the school. Federal law requires such structures to be at least 300 feet away.

The school buildings are visible to the right of the silo.

The school in the foreground, then the silo, then the coal sludge damn and the mining operation.

The school at center, the silo and the coal prep plant. Assorted chemicals, some known carcinogens, are used in the prep plant.

The school at center, and more of the prep plant.

School at left of photo, silo, prep plant and face of the dam.

The dam.

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