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Tennessee Coal Sludge Spill-U.S

Tennessee Coal Sludge Spill-U.S. Sean Forquer. What happened and when. December 22, 2008

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Tennessee Coal Sludge Spill-U.S

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  1. Tennessee Coal Sludge Spill-U.S Sean Forquer

  2. What happened and when • December 22, 2008 • Hundreds of millions of gallons of coal fly ash slurry escaped after an earthen dike broke at a waste retention pond. The coal sludge ended up covering almost 400 acres. It destroyed homes and some of the slurry got mixed in with some nearby streams.

  3. Important containments/people involved • Some containments in the coal sludge include mercury and after the spill, the level of arsenic in the drinking water noticeably increased. Leslie Sims, an on-sight coordinator for the Environmental Protective Agency deemed some of the well water undrinkable

  4. Consequences of event • Some water was un drinkable, houses were inhabitable, damaged or destroyed. Residents were displaced and the surrounding land was covered in coal sludge

  5. Sources • http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Tennessee+coal+sludge+spill • http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-02/us/tennessee.sludge_1_arsenic-tva-sludge?_s=PM:US • http://a2.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/139/837c95374b14490190eefb5e66ee67d6/l.jpg • http://api.ning.com/files/y3nWScbsgQ7LMrvRbP52rTVK4jVQRiCGC73WSeXHQiKAFGAqdNiNnQ2GflG1hU8yN7xWEDp3IGPJna7r3YPXAVPtt1BVXlfv/TVAcoalashflooddec222008.jpg

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