It’s Getting Hot In Here

Tennessee Valley Authority
400 W. Summit Hill Dr.
Knoxville, TN 37902-1499
865-632-2101
tvainfo@tva.com

Dear TVA, Are you trying to kill us all? You are jerks. Come on!

Sincerely,

Dana

PS I think it’s safe to guess this spill is many times what you are admitting. You may be receiving more letters on this issue.

Read more about it in the Knoxville, TN paper:

STEVENSON, Ala. – The Tennessee Valley Authority says a waste pond at its Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama has ruptured but the spill is now contained.

TVA spokesman John Moulton said the leak in the pond was discovered at about 6 a.m. at the plant near Stevenson, Ala. He said most of the material from the leak flowed into a settling pond at the plant site but some spilled into Widows Creek.

The federal utility says the leak of what it described as gypsum has stopped and it is repairing the pond. It doesn’t have an estimate on much material spilled and the cause of the failure is under investigation.

The incident comes less than three weeks after a TVA fly-ash pond ruptured in Kingston, Tenn., spilling more than 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge. The Dec. 22 retention pond failure in Kingston damaged homes, covered a community with a layer of muck and fouled the Emory River.