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Odor, haze linked to power plant emissions, DEP believes
http://wvgazette.com/News/200801250495
A chemical odor and hazy cloud that moved across the Kanawha Valley Friday afternoon appears to have come from a combination of coal-fired power plant emissions, state Department of Environmental Protection investigators believe.
John Benedict, director of the DEP Division of Air Quality, said his agency’s inspectors flew over the region in a state helicopter to try to pinpoint the cause of the problem.
Those investigators narrowed the source of the haze to an area “in and around” American Electric Power’s John Amos Power Plant, across the Kanawha River from Poca, Benedict said.
“By helicopter observations, it appears the plume from some of the power plants to the northwest of John Amos are kind of lining up and then interacting with the John Amos plume, and causing the pollutant to concentrate,” Benedict said late Friday. “I suspect these plumes are lining up and touching down generally in the Charleston area.”
AEP spokesman Phil Moye said his company did not believe that the Amos plant was having any operational problems that would have caused the haze.
Moye said company officials believe it is more likely that a “unique water condition” led to the odor and the haze. AEP officials are cooperating with the DEP investigation, Moye said.
Hmmmmmm interesting
I wouldn't think coal emmissions would smell like chlorine. Diesel or jet fuel it might smell like, or any number of other hydrocarbon type smells (even methane!), but chlorine?
“Moye said company officials believe it is more likely that a “unique water condition” led to the odor and the haze. AEP officials are cooperating with the DEP investigation, Moye said.”
Smelled like smog to me. Maybe that’s what they’re trying to say.