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One year into a colossal cleanup, the Tennessee Valley Authority still doesn’t know where it’s going to put all the ash that spilled from a massive holding pond at a coal plant west of Knoxville. Every day workers dredge thousands of tons of ash from the Emory river, which was smothered after an earthen dam burst a year ago. Three hundred acres of sludge – over 200 football fields worth – blanketed the river and nearby countryside last year. WPLN’s Daniel Potter reports on TVA’s billion-dollar cleanup of one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind.
Compare photos below with ones from from January 2009, seen here.
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