4h37m20s08f TVA Coal Ash Spill - Waste of Coal - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 15/05/2017

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ All the ash that builds up from the burning of coal they put in a big pile. It's called a tailings pile. Well, no break this week for crews in Tennessee trying to clean up that mess of potentially toxic sludge that oozed across hundreds of acres of land just west of Knoxville. Crews are using heavy equipment to clear away sludge that inundated a neighborhood near Harriman, Tennessee.  5.4 million cubic yards [of] coal ash residue that comes from burning coal to create electricity at the power plant that is run by the Tennessee Valley Authority. That ash is now entered into the neighborhood, entered into the land and most importantly- into two rivers here in the Tennessee River watershed. In that ash are heavy metals like lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic.

You can see the ask. Look, they're still digging it- Oh, man! Look at that! Four years later, still working on it.

What did it spill from?

It absorbs a lot of moisture, Gordon. When we had that big rainstorm it actually took on a lot of water and held it, to where the piles just collapsed and flowed downhill.

You say an ash pile washed down, I don't see an ash pile big enough where something-

That's because it already washed down.

It used to be a mountain. And now it's just a big wash.

Pretty much every coal plant has a huge ash tailings pile. This is not unique. They've all got them. This is- this is the the waste of coal.