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To: isopatch who wrote (87143)	2/13/2001 10:38:45 PM
From: Malcolm Winfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

OT: ISO, this is the best part Authorities say the female cashier at a Dairy Queen in Danville even gave the culprit $198 in real money as change. I love this country!

To: isopatch who wrote (87143)	2/14/2001 8:03:28 AM
From: Sharp_End_Of_Drill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Isopatch, funny money isn't the only thing going on in Kentucky. Coal is also leaving it's mark on the landscape. Sharp Eastern Ky. Suffers Mine-Pond Spill By ROGER ALFORD .c The Associated Press JENKINS, Ky. (AP) - For the second time in four months, a coal mine retention pond failed in eastern Kentucky, sending a million-gallon slurry of mud and water rushing onto people's property. No one was injured in Sunday's spill along Elkhorn Creek in a remote section of Letcher County near the Virginia border. But the loud rush of water was enough to frighten residents. ``It was scary at the time,'' said Russell Wyatt, whose property was covered by yellow muck from the pond. ``You just don't know how much mud and water is coming.'' The spill was smaller than one that dumped 250 million gallons of gooey black coal sludge into streams in a rural area near Inez in October, causing Gov. Paul Patton to declare a state of emergency. Paul Matney, spokesman for Premier Elkhorn Coal Co., said water from an underground mine had saturated the mountainside, causing a landslide that pushed the water from the reservoir. Jenkins Police Chief Bill Tackett termed damage from the spill minimal. ``Some of the culverts were blocked,'' he said. ``That put the water and mud into yards.'' The Inez pond, owned by Martin County Coal Corp., failed when a mine shaft beneath it collapsed, allowing sludge to leak out, state officials said. That contaminated water along about 70 miles of the Kentucky-West Virginia border, killing fish and other aquatic life in what the Environmental Protection Agency called one of the worst environmental disasters ever in the Southeast. AP-NY-02-12-01 2215EST