.BWRiverkeeper and gaspgroup filed notice of intent to sue Bluestone Coke, alleging the shuttered facility has continued to spew untreated wastewater into Five Mile Creek. They documented 392 times Bluestone itself reported Clean Water Act violations.
Published:Water pollution from the closed Bluestone Coke Facility enters Five Mile Creek in Birmingham, Ala.A Birmingham coke plant that has been shuttered for more than 18 months due to air pollution violations now faces a lawsuit over 392 alleged water pollution violations.
“Closed or not, it’s Bluestone’s responsibility to keep contaminated water from flowing off the property,” said Sarah Stokes, a senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center, which represents Black Warrior Riverkeeper. A coke plant has been in operation on the site for more than 100 years, and the facility is listed as one of the “potentially responsible parties” for contaminated soil pollution in the Superfund site.
Black Warrior Riverkeeper Nelson Brooke said Five Mile Creek, where the discharges were documented, was a “beautiful spring-fed stream, but it has unfortunately been a dumping ground for industrial polluters for many decades due to inaction by environmental regulatory agencies.”
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