Little Blue Run. Photo courtesy of CACA

The largest coal-ash pond in the United States is the 1,700-acre Little Blue Run impoundment at the Bruce Mansfield power plant in Beaver County. On May 30 the grassroots Little Blue Regional Action Group, with the aid of the Environmental Integrity Project and Public Justice, filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue the owners, First Energy of Akron OH. The causes of the NOI include surface and groundwater contamination, discharges into the Ohio River in violation of the federal Clean Water Act, and failure to properly report impoundment releases to the EPA.