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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27,2018 | A5
Obituaries
The deadline for obituaries is 1 p.m. Monday. Funeral homes may send notices to obits@bbnews.today
Billy Barber
Billy Pryor Barber, age 83, passed away on
Thursday, Dec. 20,2018.
Immediate survivors include wife Eileen Harkness
Barber of Eatonton, children Susan Teresa Barber
of Austell and James Daniel (Jenny) Barber of
Lexington, S.C., stepsons Hugh Brian (Hollie)
Hilliard of Gray and Joseph Edward (Bridget)
Hilliard of Clarksville, grandchildren Ruby
Madeline Hilliard and William Edward Hilliard
of Gray, Natalie Caroline Hilliard and Hannah
Catherine Hilliard of Clarksville, brother Bruce
Barber of Dothan, Ala. And sister Beverly Coleman
of Tallahassee, Fla. and Kathy Williams of Colquitt,
several nieces and nephews.
Moores Funeral Home and Crematory has charge
of arrangements. Services were held at 3 p.m. on
Saturday, Dec. 22 at First Baptist Church. Burial
occurred at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 23 at Friendship
Cemetery in Donalsonville. In lieu of flowers memo
rial contributions maybe made to First Baptist
Church of Milledgeville.
Herbert Jackson
Mr. Herbert Curtis Jackson III, age 72, of
Milledgeville, passed away on Dec. 23,2018.
Immediate survivors include daughter Cathleen
Jackson, sister Leigh Ann Dillard of Kentucky and
brother Phillip Jackson of Florida.
Williams Funeral Home and Crematory of
Milledgeville in charge of arrangements. Services will
be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 28 at the Georgia
Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Neal Jackson
Mr. Stanley “Neal” Jackson, age 71, passed away on
Sunday, Dec. 23,2018.
Immediate survivors include wife Terry Lynn
Jackson, daughters Lynn (Jimmy) Edwards of
Gray, Tracey (Daniel) McMichael of Monticello and
Melissa (Mickey) Thompson of Gray, son Brandon
(Desi) Jackson of Milledgeville, grandchildren Kyle
Edwards, Leanna Edwards, Christopher McMichael,
Lee Edwards and Brandon Thompson, aunt Rosa
Hogg of Forsyth and his faithful companion Bandit.
Williams Funeral Home and Crematory of
Milledgeville is in charge of arrangements. A cele
bration of life will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec.
28 at the Williams Funeral Home Chapel. The
family will receive friends at Williams Funeral
Home from 6 p.m. until the service hour. Flowers
are accepted and for those who wish, the family has
requested donations to the Fine Pointe Hospice in
Macon.
Wesley Jones
Virginia Underwood
Mrs. Virginia Christine Carr Underwood, age 93,
passed away on Sunday, Dec. 23,2018.
Immediate survivors include daughters Elaine
(Malvin) Berry and Brenda Carr, sisters Runette
Pounds and Marie Sherrer, grandchildren Tammy
(Jeff) Lyle, Sheila (Mark) Beckman and Shane
(Rita) Berry, great-grandchildren April (Eddie)
Dunson, Amanda (Jody) Raley, Branon Lyle, Brett
(Jessica) Lyle, Prescilla Lyle, Dennis (Tenille)
Brantley, David (Nan) Brantley, Chance Beckman,
Chris (Candace) Berry and Christin Berry and 13
great-great-grandchildren.
Williams Funeral Home and Crematory is in
charge of arrangements. A celebration of life will take
place at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 27 at the Williams
Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at
Baldwin Memorial Gardens. The family will receive
friends at Williams funeral home on Thursday from
2 p.m. to the funeral hour. Flowers accepted and for
those who wish, the family has requested contribu
tions to St. Judes Children’s Hospital.
Wesley Monroe Jones, age 81, passed away on
Friday, Dec. 21,2018.
Immediate survivors include his wife Anne
Coursey Jones, children Dr. Stephen Wesley Jones
(Yolanda Anne Jones) and Bradford Saxton Jones,
grandchildren Wesley Parker Jones and Mabry Anne
Jones, sister Gloria Jones Hopkins and nephews
Todd Hopkins and Lewis Hopkins.
Williams Funeral Home is in charge of arrange
ments. A celebration of life will be held at 11 a.m. on
Thursday, Dec. 27 at Gordon First Baptist Church.
Read breaking news
online at www.bbnews.today
TOXIN
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The Environmental
Integrity Project
andEarthjusticeexam-
ined that data and deter
mined that 11 out of 12
Georgia coal-fired power
plants have contam
inated groundwater
with one or more toxic
pollutants.
For decades, Georgia
Power operated 11
power plants and
disposed of millions of
tons of toxic coal ash,
primarily in unlined
ponds, with little regu
latory oversight by the
Georgia Environmental
Protection Division
of the Georgia
Department of Natural
Resources (EPD), or
the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA).
Tests by the CDC,
EPA and other organi
zations found that coal
ash contains hazardous
pollutants, such as
arsenic, boron, chro
mium, cobalt, lead,
radium, selenium and
others that can severely
harm human health, fish
and wildlife.
“The levels of multiple
toxic pollutants found at
Georgia plants exceed
levels that are safe for
human consumption,”
the report notes.
Earthjustice said that
Georgia Power made
its new groundwater
data available in a form
that was very difficult
to understand, and
consequently the data
required technical
and legal analysis that
the groups recently
completed.
“The average length
of the reports posted by
Georgia Power was more
than 2,400 pages,” the
report notes.
Because Plant
Branch was retired in
2015, according to the
report, Georgia Power
maintains that the CCR
rule does not apply to its
ash pits at that site.
“This means that
many of the documents
posted for regulated
coal plants (annual
groundwater monitoring
reports, documentation
of history of construc
tion and liner type, etc.)
are not available for this
plant under the public
disclosure requirements
of the CCR rule,” the
report states.
According to
Earthjustice, using
groundwater-moni
toring data posted for
Plant Branch as part
of its ash pond closure
process, coupled with
prior records, they were
able to establish that the
groundwater is contam
inated with coal ash
constituents and unsafe.
“The pollutants
presenting a risk at Plant
Branch include beryl
lium in one well and
cobalt in multiple wells,”
the report finds. “In one
THE GROUNDWATER AT PLANT BRANCH IS UNSAFE
Well
Pollutant
Health
threshold
Mean
concentration
Maximum
concentration
BRGWC-271
Cobalt (jjg/L)
6
11.4
14.9
BRGWC-291
Cobalt (jjg/L)
6
11.7
13.6
BRGWC-33S
Cobalt (jjg/L)
6
55.5
61.2
BRGWC-38S
Beryllium (|jg/L)
4
9.5
10.4
Cobalt (jjg/L)
6
270.4
298.0
PZ-41S
Cobalt (jjg/L)
6
11.1
17.8
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WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S
In honor of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr, Georgia College will recognize student work
from Baldwin County Schools, John Milledge
Academy, Sinclair Christian Academy, EBLA,
Georgia College Early College and Georgia
Military College. Select students will present
their work at the breakfast.
DAY. JAN. IB,
7:30-9:30 A.M.
MAGNOLIA BALLROOM
231 WEST HANCOCK ST., MILLEDGEVILLE, GA
VISIT MILLEOGEVlLLEGA.COM/CALENOAR to register
well, cobalt levels are
nearly 50 times the safe
drinking water level.”
Georgia Power
recently amended its
closure plan for Plant
Branch. The company
now plans to excavate all
the ash from the ponds
onsite and then store the
11.5 million tons of coal
ash in a new, lined land
fill on plant property.
According to Georgia
Power, EPD will regulate
that landfill.
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