POWER OF ATTORNEY

To Sign and File Reports under Section 16(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
With Respect to Equity Securities of
Calgon Carbon Corporation



	KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENT, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Gail A. Gerono and Richard D. Rose and each of them, his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution, for him and in
his name, place and stead, to sign any and all reports of the undersigned under
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to equity
securities of Calgon Carbon Corporation, and to file the same with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all intents
and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his
or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact and agents, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in effect unless notice of its revocation
shall have been filed by the undersigned with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed and delivered this Power of
Attorney the date set forth below.



DATE:   November 25, 2009		SIGNATURE:   /s/ Leroy M. Ball

				PRINT NAME:  Leroy M. Ball