Environmental Disaster: The Martin County Coal Slurry Spill

On october 11th 2000 shortly after midnight an estimated 306,000,000 US gallons of slurry poored into two tributaries of the Tug Fork River. Coal slurry is made up of solid and liquid waste and is a by-product of the coal mining and preparation processes.The water supply for over 27,000 residents was contaminated, and all aquatic life in Coldwater Fork and Wolf Creek was killed.