Feb. 6
A massive spill of poisonous ash turns tributary into gray sludge. Hundreds of workers from Duke Energy power plant rush to plug hole in giant storage pit spewing toxic gray sludge that threatens drinking water across state lines.
Source:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-toxic-ash-spill-threatens-drinking-water-article-1.1604450?
A massive spill of poisonous ash turns tributary into gray sludge. Hundreds of workers from Duke Energy power plant rush to plug hole in giant storage pit spewing toxic gray sludge that threatens drinking water across state lines.
Up to 82,000 tons of toxic coal ash has spewed into the Dan River that lies near the border of North Carolina and Virginia.
Since a security guard discovered the leak on Sunday, some 27 million gallons of contaminated water has poured into the river. Officials at Duke Energy, the nation's largest electricity provider, say they don't know when the hole will be plugged.
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Toxic sludge coats the hand of an environmental activist from Appalachian Voices. Since Sunday, thousands of tons of poisonous coal ash have dumped into the Dan River from a North Carolina electricity plant.
For more than two miles, the river was coated in gray slime, and environmental regulators said they are still waiting on tests to determine whether the poisonous sludge had seeped into water supplies in North Carolina and Virginia.
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State and federal investigators monitor huge ash storage pit in North Carolina that is spewing toxic sludge into the Dan River, which runs along the state's border with Virginia and threatens drinking water supplies.
"How do you clean this up? Dredge the whole river bottom for miles?" asked Brian Williams, a program manager with the Dan River Basin Association. You can't clean this up. It's going to go up the food chain, from the filter feeders, to the fish, to the otters and birds, to people."
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Sludge coats an oar from canoe making its way down the Dan River, where up to 82,000 tons of poisonous coal ash has spilled from storage pit in Eden, N.C.
The contamination was seeping from a 27-acre storage pond at a Duke Energy plant used for holding thousands of tons of harmful ash generated by coal production.
The waste is known to contain dangerous elements including mercury, lead and uranium.
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An inspector for the Environmental Protection Agency collects water samples from the Dan River. Federal and state officilas are investigating toxic spill at North Carolina energy plant.
Source:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-toxic-ash-spill-threatens-drinking-water-article-1.1604450?
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