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Friday, February 13, 2009
Environment - TVA coal ash spill cleanup could cost $825 million
Updating a long list of ILB entries on coal ash, including this one from Jan. 9th including a list prepared by the AP of "Indiana power plants with coal ash ponds and the amount in tons stored," Douglas Manssfield of the AP reports today in a story that begins:
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- It could cost as much as $825 million to clean up a river and a rural neighborhood after a massive spill of coal ash sludge from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant, the utility's chief executive said Thursday.President and CEO Tom Kilgore told the TVA board of directors that the nation's largest public utility had already spent $31 million on the work from December through the end of January.
It was the first board meeting since 1.1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge broke out of a containment pond on Dec. 22, flooding homes and pouring into a river inlet near the Kingston Fossil Plant, about 40 miles west of Knoxville. No one was hurt, but 300 acres were covered with up to 9 feet of grayish muck.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 13, 2009 08:44 AM
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