Sunday, January 11, 2009

Tennessee Coal Ash Spill Devastates River

NPR Weekend Edition, January 10, 2009

Even before 1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge flooded the land and fouled the Emory River in Eastern Tennessee, decades of industrial contamination and farm runoff had left the river polluted and made some fish unsafe to eat.

But now the December 2008 spill has transformed part of this already endangered river into something that barely resembles a river at all.

To read the whole NPR story: Click Here.

The coal ash sludge came from a coal-fired Tennessee Valley Authority power plant.

For the TVA's account of the story: Click Here.

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