Regulated pretreatment planned at Alexander City's new graphite processing facility

I was shocked and dismayed several weeks ago to learn that a Coosa County graphite mining venture I’d been hearing about was going to build their processing plant in Kellyton, just west of Alexander City, and planned to pump their industrial wastewater to Alexander City for discharge into our Treasured Lake. After being alerted to this by none other than the Eagle-eye Campbells (Matt and Ann), we’ve been taking a crash course on graphite mining and processing. That’s difficult because currently there are zero graphite processing plants in the U.S.

Most of the world’s graphite comes from China. As you may know, China is not known for its environmental stewardship. The following article even deepened our concerns about graphite production coming to our area – a real environmental horror story: Google ‘graphite mining pollution in China.’

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