The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday made a list of 44 sites in 10 states where residents could be in danger of being exposed to chemicals from coal-ash storage ponds. Two plants here locally made the list.

The AEP Muskingum River Plant in Waterford, Ohio and the Willow Island Power Plant in Pleasants County, West Virgina were classified by the EPA as potentially highly hazardous.

The danger is in the plants storage ponds that collect fly ash, coal slag and and other hazardous material.

The Director of Environmental Science at Marietta College, Dr. Eric Fitch, describes what's next for the EPA, "The next steps now is for EPA to work with each plant, to try to get the ponds improved, and what they can do to make sure that they stay intact and don't release the materials."

The EPA has been doing inspections across the country after a similar plant storage pond in Tennessee flooded into a neighborhood last year causing damage.

The 10 states that EPA conclude as possibly hazardous include; North Carolina that has 12 sites, Kentucky with 7 sites, Ohio with 6 sites (Brillant, Cheshire and Waterford) West Virgina has 4 (Willow Island, St. Albans, Moundsville, and New Haven) Illinois has 2 sites, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Montana all have 1 site.