Virtual Flyover of Marsh Fork Elementary School and Environs

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Photos by Vivian Stockman; Flyover courtesy SouthWings

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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…

: 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 stru…

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

: The school in the foreground, then the silo, then the coal sludge dam 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.

: A lake of toxic goo looms over Marsh Fork Elementary.

: What a disgusting mess.

: Blasting above an earthen dam holding billions of gallons of toxic sludge above an elementary school? How does the industry get away with this? Why…