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The Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.
19 maj 2009 · According to John Moulton, a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority which owns the plant, a test of river water near the spill site found elevated levels of lead and thallium, both of which...
19 lut 2019 · When a dike on a coal ash pond ruptured at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tennessee, in December 2008, it spilled far more toxic ash than the Deepwater Horizon spilled oil. The ash...
On December 22, 2008, a retention pond wall collapsed at Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Kingston plant in Harriman, Tennessee, releasing a combination of water and fly ash that flooded 12 homes, spilled into nearby Watts Bar Lake, contaminated the Emory River, and caused a train wreck.
18 lut 2014 · Ash and mud rest where Watts Bar Lake once was Dec. 23, 2008 near the Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman Tenn. A 40-foot retention pond broke early Monday morning Dec. 22nd.
23 gru 2013 · On December 22, 2008, just after midnight, the town of Harriman, Tennessee woke to the flood of more than one billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge that burst through an earthen dam on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant.
On December 22, 2008, the Kingston coal-fired power plant of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) had a containment structure rupture, spilling over 3.7 million cubic meters of wetcoalash(flyashwithintermixedbottomash),inundating the Emory River, its tributaries, and the adjacent landscape near Harriman, TN (1).
