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
Leroy M. Ball, 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 21, 2009		SIGNATURE:  /s/ William J. Lyons

				PRINT NAME: William J. Lyons