125 were killed in the 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood, pictured here, when a coal slurry dam broke. A North Carolina miner's death last week has renewed concerns over the safety of coal slurry ponds. By ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia regulators have made many changes to ensure massive coal slurry ponds don't fail from the bottom and flood underground mines, but federal officials said ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Slurry pond failures like the one that swallowed a bulldozer and its driver last week at a West Virginia coal mine could be avoided if the waste pits were built to strict ...

LOUISVILLE - In parts of eastern Kentucky, the recent pictures from Hungary - of red sludge that roared from a factory's reservoir downstream into the Danube River - are all too reminiscent of what ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Firefighters in Britain rescued a cow that wandered into a deep slurry pond and sank up to its neck. The Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service's Lutterworth Station said in a Facebook ...

A slurry pond will be built close to a festival site, despite concerns it would be akin to an open sewer. The application for earth banked slurry lagoon will be built at Newbridge Farm, Powys, near ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Slurry pond failures like the one that swallowed a bulldozer and its driver last week at a West Virginia coal mine could be avoided if the waste pits were built to strict ...

This Dec. 3, 2012 photo provided by the W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection shows the embankment after a collapse at the Consol's Robinson Run operation in Harrison County, W. Va. Crews ...