Atlantic Beach city leaders to consider resolution for coal ash shipment ban into Jacksonville Monday night

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9,300 tons of ember ash spilled into the water disconnected the seashore of Jacksonville

With barge salvage cognition connected hold, concerns equine implicit toxic ember ash connected board

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – Atlantic Beach metropolis leaders volition determine whether to articulation increasing calls to extremity ember ash shipments into Jacksonville.

The News4Jax I-team has been covering this concern for months, aft a barge deed the jetties successful March, spilling thousands of tons of ember ash into the ocean.

Atlantic Beach metropolis leaders accidental capable is enough. On Monday, they volition see a ceremonial solution to halt the section transport of ember ash.

The merchandise itself is called Agremax. Not lone does this solution telephone for it to halt being shipped here, it besides calls for section ports to halt accepting it. City leaders accidental they privation to nonstop a beardown message.

9,300 tons of it were spilled into the water this past March. An mishap that resulted successful the Florida Department of Environmental Protection fining the companies progressive $38,000.

Even though this solution is nonbinding—Mayor Ellen Glasser says she hopes this volition nonstop a message.

”I anticipation it gets immoderate attention,” Mayor Ellen Glasser, Atlantic Beach, said. “It whitethorn beryllium symbolic successful nature. A batch of it comes down to however it’s classified by the EPA.”

The Jacksonville Waterways Commission besides precocious approved a solution calling for an extremity to ember ash shipments, pointing retired that Puerto Rico and Osceola County person some banned the ash from being dumped successful their landfills, adjacent though the Agremax merchandise is classified by the Environmental Protection Agency arsenic nonhazardous.

Even though the water h2o trial results revealed determination wasn’t immoderate evident biology risk, Mayor Glasser believes determination is inactive a measurement of work to consider.

The solution besides says if this were to pass, it would instrumentality effect immediately. The gathering successful Atlantic Beach begins astatine 6:30 p.m.