{"id":4394,"date":"2012-03-02T08:59:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2012-03-02T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T09:06:53","slug":"the-cause-of-the-oak-creek-landslide-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/02\/the-cause-of-the-oak-creek-landslide-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"The cause of the Oak Creek landslide in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long term readers will remember back in November last year I featured on a number of occasions a landslide at the We Energies power station at Oak Creek in Wisconsin<\/a> (see posts here<\/a> and here<\/a>).\u00a0 An anonymous commenter<\/a> has highlighted a new report yesterday in the Journal Sentinel<\/a> that provides more information about the cause and the aftermath. The report notes that:<\/p>\n

The state Department of Natural Resources issued a notice of violation to the Milwaukee utility on Thursday saying the agency believes the company violated solid waste regulations when it built a pond in and above a pond built atop a coal ash landfill on the power plant site.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have reason to believe that the failure to install a liner in the storm water pond was a significant factor in the bluff collapse,\u201d the DNR said.<\/p>\n

The notice of violation indicates We Energies could face fines of up to $5,000 per day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a couple of interesting resources on the WDNR website<\/a> about this landslide:<\/p>\n