The company said it had also competed excavation of a large coal ash dump that flooded last year, removing the gray ash containing toxic heavy metals to a landfill on higher ground covered with an artificial turf cap designed to repeal rainwater.

People began turning up in droves to take Instagram selfies, so a power company announced that it's actually a toxic ash dump, that contact with skin can cause an allergic reaction and burns, and advised everyone to steer clear.

For years, when Bokoshe residents were outside, the powdery ash blowing from the trucks and the ash dump on the edge of town would "kind of engulf you," Holmes said.

For example, northwest of Pittsburgh, groundwater near the New Castle Generating Station's coal ash dump has levels of arsenic at 372 times the safe drinking water level.

Sutton power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by Florence's floodwaters.

From Newport to Forest Hills to Philadelphia, back to Forest Hills and then finally to the ash dump of Flushing Meadows, it has been a long and fascinating journey.

The Metrocentre was built on the site of a former power station's waterlogged ash dump after the land was earmarked in 1979.

Study site 3 is another fly ash dump located inside Crescent thermal power plant premises near Asansol, West Bengal India.

The EMB Central Luzon also said that the two bottom ash dump facilities within the Petron Bataan Refinery (PBR) complex in Limay town have not been used, following earlier orders from the DENR to stop dumping activities on the site.

The Delhi Government said transportation of fly ash from Badarpur plant has also been prohibited for the next 10 days and water will be sprinkled on the fly ash dump there.

Seven years earlier, in 1979, few realised that, when a former power station's waterlogged ash dump on the outskirts of Gateshead was chosen for development, the North East of England would pioneer a retail revolution.