Paddling Through the Coal-Ash Spill
9 Jan
Members of the environmental group Appalachian Voices recently paddled canoes on the Emory and Clinch Rivers near Kingston, Tennessee where a coal-ash spill at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant dumped one billion gallons of sludge onto the landscape.
They produced the short video of their trip below.
The December 22 breach affected a 300 acre area of east-central Tennessee, destroying three homes and damaging more than 40 other properties. Authorities have warned residents not to use private wells or to come into contact with the ash after tests found levels of arsenic and other metals above drinking-water standards.
The coal-ash also containes toxic metals such as thallium, antimony, lead, cadmium, mercury and boron, according to the lawsuit.
You can read the latest on the disaster HERE.
Appalachian Voices describes itself as an organization that, “brings people together to solve the environmental problems having the greatest impact on the central and southern Appalachian Mountains.”
