Sentences with phrase «emory river»
Even though the spill hit way back in December, the repercussions keep on piling up — now, the Appalachian Voices has completed a study showing that the nearby Emory River, a source of drinking water, has been contaminated with «260 times the allowable amount of arsenic.»
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Total recoverable metals water testing results from Emory River mile 2.2, where ash clogs the river, revealed arsenic levels were 260 times the allowable amounts in drinking water.
Some of the toxic sludge got into the Emory river, «a tributary of the Clinch and Tennessee Rivers: The water supply for Chattanooga, Tennessee as well as millions of people living downstream in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky.»
Six years earlier, more than 5 million cubic yards of coal ash spilled into Tennessee's Emory River — one of the country's largest environmental disasters ever.
A CBS News 60 Minutes segment about the spill focused on the lack of federal regulation of coal ash and the impact of the spill on the affluent homeowners nearby, describing how «a billion gallons of muck shot into the Emory River like a black tsunami.»
Jeff Rich, «Coal Fly Ash Spill, Emory River, Tennessee,» detail, archival inkjet print, 2009.
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Five years ago on December 22, that pond burst its walls, drowning more than a square kilometer of land and killing portions of the Emory and Clinch rivers.
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