In The Air We Breathe

Welcome to Bokoshe, Oklahoma

Until recently most of us in Bokoshe went about our daily lives not thinking much about the Thumbs Up Ranch* Fly Ash Disposal site outside of town. We may have complained to each other about the fly ash dust rolling off the trucks as they pass by, the build up of fly ash on our cars or the incessant dust which invades our homes on a regular basis. We accepted it as our lot in life. When AES proposed building an additional power plant twice the size of Shady Point I, our problem with fly ash became a major issue. Building the second power plant would at least double if not triple the amount of fly ash dumped around Bokoshe. The permit for Shady Point II has been withdrawn, but our problem with fly ash remains.
* d.b.a. M.M.H.F., LLC (Making Money Having Fun)
Note: Recently M.M.H.F., LLC changed their name to Clean Hydro Reclamation

BREAKING NEWS
MMHF Cited for 2nd Time in 4 Months - CESSATION ORDER

(Dallas, Texas – April 27, 2010) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a cease and desist administrative order to MMHF, LLC of Bokoshe, Oklahoma, for violations of the federal Clean Water Act.

A February 22, 2010, EPA inspection of the company’s open pit coal mine reclamation operations in LeFlore County, Oklahoma, found an unauthorized discharge of pollutants (waste water) into a tributary of Doe Creek. Samples of the waste stream were taken during the inspection and were found to be toxic and in violation of Oklahoma water quality standards. (It was determined by the EPA that the discharge point of entry was contaminated from discharges and measured between 900 and 4200 parts per million total soluble salts.)

Based on these findings, MMHF, LLC has been ordered to immediately eliminate the unauthorized discharge of toxic waste water, and within 30 days document and describe the corrective actions taken to eliminate the unauthorized discharge and provide a plan explaining how future waste streams will be managed.

The Cessation Order does not prohibit the placement of CCBs (coal combustion waste/fly ash) on site, and utilizing the water available on location to work the ash or continuing reclamation activities as directed by ODM.

Surrounded by Coal Ash - Communities at Risk

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Our Story

The EPA is holding a public comment period on new, federally enforceable standards
to protect Americans from toxic coal ash, but the coal industry is fighting back,
trying to put their profits before our health.

Ask the EPA to adopt Subtitle C that will classify CCW as “special waste”
subject to hazardous waste management standards and establish mandatory
federally enforced requirements for states to meet.

TAKE ACTION TODAY! through the Sierra Club or

TAKE ACTION! through EarthJustice.

Our Wind Blows Your Way - Think About It!

Radiation levels rising.

Slow death is in the air.

Every thing’s mutating but nobody seems to care.

Now our children have to live with the changes that we make.

The whole earth has suffered from the chances that we take.

We say that’s the price of progress and we have no other choice.

Can we make an honest effort? Can see beyond our greed?

B.E. Cause

Bokoshe, Oklahoma 74930

flyash@intheairwebreathe.com

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