Waste spills at second TVA site

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The Tennessean
Updated: 1/10/2009 9:38:02 AM
Posted: 1/10/2009 9:34:07 AM

Written by Anne Paine and Brad Schrade, The Tennessean
Coal waste from another TVA power plant - this time Widows Creek in north Alabama - has spilled into a waterway, bringing more emergency action and more calls from environmentalists to regulate the material.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, which estimated the spill at 10,000 gallons, placed booms in Widows Creek, which runs through the plant site, to stop the waste from moving downstream, said Scott Hughes, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

The material unloosed was a mixture of water and gypsum, which can contain potentially toxic substances.

The discovery of the spill came just one day after a U.S. Senate committee hearing on TVA's Dec. 22 catastrophic coal ash slide at its Kingston power plant in East Tennessee.

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=74163&catid=2

Clean sludge technology??

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1. whose next? what's in your neighborhood?

toxic means it kills you, right away or later. either way you are dead before you should be.