Little Blue Run

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Little Blue Run
Satellite image of the reservoir in 2002

Satellite image of the reservoir in 2002

Data
Water code US :  1179477
location Beaver County , Pennsylvania , USA
River system Mississippi River
Drain over Mill Creek  → Ohio  → Mississippi  → Gulf of Mexico
source in Greene Township
40 ° 35 ′ 44 ″  N , 80 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.
muzzle in Mill Creek coordinates: 40 ° 38 ′ 3 ″  N , 80 ° 31 ′ 3 ″  W 40 ° 38 ′ 3 ″  N , 80 ° 31 ′ 3 ″  W.

The Little Blue Run is a small stream in western Pennsylvania . It rises in Greene Township , Beaver County and flows into Mill Creek just before it flows into the Ohio River . Its original length was about five kilometers, and since the 1970s a large part of its original valley has been an ash dump.

Little Blue Run Dam

The Little Blue Run Dam is an arched dam approximately 122 m (400 ft ) high and 671 m (2200 ft) long . The resulting reservoir serves as a dump for fly ash and other viscous residues from flue gas cleaning , which are pumped here from the Bruce Mansfield power station located eight kilometers to the east . Today, a milky turquoise lake covers an area of ​​5.26 km² (1300 acres ) and extends into neighboring West Virginia .

In addition to environmental damage from heavy metals, there is theoretically the risk of a dam bursting, as in 2008 with a much smaller ash basin in Kingston , Tennessee . A break in the Little Blue Run Dam would affect around 50,000 people on the Ohio River, including the residents of East Liverpool . The reservoir is therefore on an EPA list of 49 potentially dangerous such facilities.

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