Posted on 12/22/2008 2:03:29 PM PST by Tennessee_Bob
HARRIMAN — A retention pond wall collapsed early this morning at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston steam plant, releasing a mixture of water and fly ash that flooded nearly a dozen homes and caused a train wreck.
No injuries have been reported, but one house was swept into the middle of Swan Pond Circle Road and huge piles of wet fly ash cover the roadway.
Officials say 4 to 6 feet of material washed out of the pond and now covers up to 400 acres of land adjacent to the plant.
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I blame environmental laws that made them collect that stuff instead of dispersing it into the air!/s
Wow! Those are some pictures. Did anyone get killed?
Those TVA dams are all very old, and haven’t received proper maintenance lately. It’s only a matter of time before a big one gives way.
Ash Slide at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant
http://www.tva.gov/emergency/ashslide_kingston.htm
TVA’s response site
No fatalities, thank God. Several homes are complete losses, and the plant is cut off from coal deliveries for right now.
Lucky people. Some of those houses were thoroughly wrecked!
Where’s that “Dirty Jobs” guy when you need him?
I work for an environmental consulting firm and we have done studies on land applications for fly ash but this is the wrong way to go about it.
ash fault, film at 11
can it be used as fertilizer or is it just coal byproduct?
Thanks for the link!
I wonder if the residents ever knew there could be a disaster such as this? This is terrible, and right before Christmas........
Looks like the TVA and by extension the people of Tennessee are about to take a huge hit to the pocketbook to clean this up and put things right.
Damn.
From what I remember reading it cannot be used as a fertilizer. Most common use was an adder to concrete.
Raw Video from channel 4 in Nashville, (No Commentary)
http://www.wsmv.com/video/index.html
(scroll down)
It’s a mess
The “fly ash” I was involved with was paper biproduct at a Weyerhauser facility.
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