Study Offers No Answers On Coal Slurry Sites: ; Researchers Find Water From Abandoned Mines Could Be Potentially Harmful to Residents

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MORGANTOWN - Legislators have waited 3 1/2 years and spent more than $220,000 to learn whether coal slurry pumped into abandoned underground mines is dangerous to people who live nearby. The answer? No one knows.

A new 418-page report by researchers at West Virginia University concludes that while the wastewater from cleaning coal could potentially affect water supplies, wells and public health, there's no proof it has or will.

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Study Offers No Answers On Coal Slurry Sites: ; Researchers Find Water From Abandoned Mines Could Be Potentially Harmful to Residents

"No public health problem, attributable only to coal slurry, can be documented from available data," the report says.

But principal researcher Alan Ducatman and his team caution that they were forced to work with vast "data ...

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