Coal dust was detected as far as 12 blocks away in residential neighborhoods facing Baltimore’s CSX Curtis Bay coal loading plant in the wake of last December’s explosion, a new report says.
“A survey of the surrounding neighborhood found deposition of coal dust (as distinguished from combusted material) in an approximately 12-block area to the west of the facility,” GHD Group, a global engineering consultant, stated in a previously unreported study obtained by The Brew.
Most of the off-site debris exposure exited from the western side of the plant, known as the North Escape Tunnel, says the study, commissioned by CSX and dated July 29, 2022.
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