INDIANA COUNTY RESIDENTS TESTIFY AT DEP PUBLIC HEARING

Several residents of Indiana County testified at a DEP public hearing concerning an amendment to a wastewater permit to allow Homer City Generation’s power plant to discharge up to 6.8 million gallons of water from the plant into Black Lick Creek.  The Trib reports that the hearing at the Homer-Center Jr./Sr. high school.  All of about a dozen speakers at the hearing spoke out against the plans to permit the plant’s wastewater to be dumped into the stream with temperatures as high as about 110 degrees, causing thermal pollution.  They were also concerned with the chemicals that would be in the waste water.  This is only for the power plant and not for the potential Amazon Web Services 36-building data center.