Good Idea!, Part 1 - TVA "May" Consider New Approach To Coal Waste Storage - MSNBC

KINGSTON, Tenn. - The spill of more than a billion gallons of coal ash from a power plant in East Tennessee may change the way the nation's largest government-owned utility stores coal waste.

Roane County officials are pushing the Tennessee Valley Authority to quit using large retention ponds filled with water and fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants.

One of the ponds burst Dec. 22 at a plant roughly 35 miles west of Knoxville, sending a flood of gray sludge over about 300 acres and destroying three homes along the Clinch River.

Roane County Executive Mike Farmer said Monday he doesn't expect to see such holding ponds on the TVA property in the future. TVA Chief Executive Tom Kilgore also told residents at a meeting Sunday that his agency is reviewing storage options at the plant.

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Kept us safe my ass ! http://www.wisecountyissues.com This is the new hybrid clean coal, nothing else to see here, the fish froze to death, move along.