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1/2/2009 1:24:53 AM

1/3/2009 11:25:07 AM

TVA spill #2

Quote :

" The Tennessee Valley Authority says a waste pond at its Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama has ruptured but the spill is contained. TVA spokesman John Moulton said the leak in the pond was discovered at about 6 a.m. at the plant near Stevenson, Ala. He said most of the material from the leak flowed into a settling pond at the plant site but some spilled into Widows Creek. The federal utility says the leak of what it described as gypsum has stopped and it is repairing the pond. It doesn’t have an estimate on much material spilled and the cause of the failure is under investigation. The incident comes less than three weeks after a TVA fly-ash pond ruptured in Kingston, Tenn., spilling more than 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge. The Dec. 22 retention pond failure in Kingston damaged homes, covered a community with a layer of muck and fouled the Emory River "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/09/second-tva-dam-breaks-at_n_156605.html
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2009/2009-01-09-095.asp

found out about this one on the way to work this morning. No where near as bad as the tenn spill. The cleanup on the tenn one will probably take close to a year. They haven't made very much progress so far (according to my husband who gets to wade around in the stuff).

1/9/2009 5:40:21 PM