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Louisville Company Gives Ash a Good Use

By Bill Wolfe
The Courier-Journal

A large, coal-fired power plant like Louisville Gas & Electric Co.'s 1,470-megawatt Mill Creek plant in southwestern Jefferson County can burn millions of tons of fuel a year -- and leave behind hundreds of thousands of tons of ash that many plants flush into a sediment pond or haul to a landfill.

The challenge for Charah, a Louisville coal-waste management company: Turn that ash into cash.

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Press Release

Louisville Company Gives Ash a Good Use

By Bill Wolfe
The Courier-Journal

A large, coal-fired power plant like Louisville Gas & Electric Co.'s 1,470-megawatt Mill Creek plant in southwestern Jefferson County can burn millions of tons of fuel a year -- and leave behind hundreds of thousands of tons of ash that many plants flush into a sediment pond or haul to a landfill.

The challenge for Charah, a Louisville coal-waste management company: Turn that ash into cash.

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About Charah

Charah®, Inc. is a leading ash management provider for the coal-fired electric utility industry. Based in Louisville, KY, Charah provides a complete line of ash management services including landfill construction, management & operations; bottom ash processing & marketing; fly ash sales; engineered fill applications; ash pond management; Integrated Gasification Combine Cycle (IGCC) slag beneficiation; gypsum handling, and limestone grinding and handling.

Charah is a charter member of the EPA’s Coal Combustion Products Partnership (C2P2) which encourages beneficial use of coal by-products. In April 2005, Charah was awarded the C2P2’sfirst place award for Innovation by the EPA for outstanding achievement in increasing the amount of coal-combustion products (CCPs) beneficially used in its patent-pending ash-based packaged concrete.

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About Charah

Charah®, Inc. is a leading ash management provider for the coal-fired electric utility industry. Based in Louisville, KY, Charah provides a complete line of ash management services including landfill construction, management & operations; bottom ash processing & marketing; fly ash sales; engineered fill applications; ash pond management; Integrated Gasification Combine Cycle (IGCC) slag beneficiation; gypsum handling, and limestone grinding and handling.

Charah is a charter member of the EPA’s Coal Combustion Products Partnership (C2P2) which encourages beneficial use of coal by-products. In April 2005, Charah was awarded the C2P2’sfirst place award for Innovation by the EPA for outstanding achievement in increasing the amount of coal-combustion products (CCPs) beneficially used in its patent-pending ash-based packaged concrete.

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