Comments on: TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY: Retaining wall at the Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant collapses and spills millions of gallons of fly ash

By: Worachai Muangmongkol

Worachai Muangmongkol — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:22:46 +0000

Believing that all Fly-Ash, coal burnt from TVA has been vanished and bring good healthy life to my good old friends. I expect to visit my home campus someday to pay my courtesy call to Prof.Dr.George Vernadakis of MTSU in M’Boro, Tenn.
At the time will find my opportunity to look over at TVA Dam and Thermal Coal Burning Power Plant. Help cheer me up for that luck.

By: Worachai Muangmongkol

Worachai Muangmongkol — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 07:34:53 +0000

I was a post graduate student from Bangkok Thailand at MTSU and once during academic term, visited at TVA plant viewing at the huge project and very much enjoined. The incident occured much damage and devastated ground level site of plantations, cattle farms, houses and buildings that brought sorrow to our Tennessians made me sad. My sympathy to our good friends in Tennessee, indeed.

By: Jerry Greer

Jerry Greer — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:56:43 +0000

I was at the spill site on Saturday morning and found security to be overwhelming. TVA police are questioning anyone with a camera anywhere near the plant or site, even on public roads. Two photographers were detained for a period of a couple of hours. Swan Pond road and Swan Pond Loop road are now closed to everyone that cannot prove they own property there. They are certainly trying to keep the disaster controlled and are tying to control the information getting out. I have new photos of the area on my website at http://www.jerrygreerphotography.com in the Environmental Portfolio. As for cleaning this up in 4 to 6 weeks, not a chance in hell! This is a disaster of epic proportions. An entire lake cove is now totally filled with a toxic fly ash coal sludge. I’m certain that they will have to buy up all the affected land then fill and cap the site. My worry is the water quality down river. They are already seeing extreme level of arsenic and other metals, though they say that it can be filtered out of the drinking water. Well, what about the many residents that have well water? Search Youtube and watch the videos and you will understand the magnitude of this disaster. A 4 to 6 week cleanup is laughable! TVA just gave their CEO Mr. Kilgore a $million$ raise! For what I ask?