Dialogue- TVA Coal Ash spill-- Is Kingston's water safe?

Early on the morning of December 22nd, an earthen wall near the TVA's Kingston Fossil plant gave way and more than a billion gallons of coal ash spilled into the surrounding area. The surge of toxic sludge destroyed homes, clogged nearby waterways, killed thousands of fish and profoundly changed the environmental character of that part of East Tennessee. The TVA Coal Ash spill is considered one of Tennessee's worst environmental accidents in recent history. And the future of the land, air and water around Kingston and Harriman is uncertain at best. On this segment of Dialogue, WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell talks about the spill's effect on the water with Renee Hoyos, Executive Director of the Tennessee Clean Water Network...

Posted by mpowell7 at January 7, 2009 01:00 PM | Links to this post
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