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12-22-2008, 11:27 AM
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HARRIMAN ASH FLOOD - TVA Spill
GANG: News is showing a water flood in HARRIMAN ,Rt #27 area west of Knoxville due to some **** breakage. ?? Some people were rescured early morning from Firemen.?
.Maybe 15 homes affected . Any of our members right there west of Oak Ridge. Cold day today for that mess , 14 degrees here in North Chatt.
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12-22-2008, 02:21 PM
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They're calling it a "sludge slide." News story and video here.
No fatalities, extensive damage after sludge-slide in Roane County / - Knoxville, TN - Local News, Regional News, National News, International News, Breaking News, Consumer News, Health News, Morning News, Political News
It's quite bad. The levee broke on a huge pond that holds ash from coal burned at the TVA fuel plant. That got dumped on the houses nearby, pushing them across the road, burying them in sludge. So far, no fatalities reported. |
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12-23-2008, 08:43 AM
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I live near Nashville but just want to say I hope everyone safely got out of their homes.
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12-23-2008, 07:23 PM
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i saw it today .... it looks like a war zone ..... there was 15 house and two people had to be saved also 3 of the 15 homes were destroyed ..... it was off swan pond ...... all the rivers around here are low ..... and there are a ton of dead fish ...... smells bad >< but yeah i have never seen anything like that .... the water was 5 feet for 2 football feilds ..... so yeah ....
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12-24-2008, 02:56 PM
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Wow I just read about that. That is just terrible! My heart really goes out to that community!
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12-26-2008, 05:51 PM
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ELOHINO DOHIYI GESESTI
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Disaster at Harriman
Last edited by Tinman313; 12-26-2008 at 06:10 PM..
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12-26-2008, 06:36 PM
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Armchair Activist!
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Thank goodness it's finally coming on the national news. Took them a while.  Unfortunately this is the water supply for many TN residents. (Chattanooga, anyone?)
This spill is 50 times larger than Exxon-Valdez. http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/new...-in-tennessee/
Kudos to the Sentinel for putting up Youtube videos. This is really an atrocity and the sad part is, it's avoidable. Our beautiful TN land is being ruined.
Last edited by jabogitlu; 12-26-2008 at 06:49 PM..
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12-26-2008, 06:43 PM
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ELOHINO DOHIYI GESESTI
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National News
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Originally Posted by jabogitlu
Thank goodness it's finally on the national news. Took them a while. Unfortunately this is the water supply for many TN residents. (Chattanooga, anyone?) |
Yeah!!! I just saw it tonight, they made it sound like it happened this morning. I was checking TN city-data and did not see it posted any where sorry if I over looked it on another city or topic..... for any one who did post it earlier. I figured it was half way between Crossville and Knoxville.
Sorry SPLIT..... did not see it listed till now. Ops! |
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12-26-2008, 07:20 PM
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ELOHINO DOHIYI GESESTI
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Doing more reach on this mess. Looking at Mapquest find Kingston TN,and the TVA Power Plant. The retention area must have breached and moved toward Harriman.......Theirs water all around the plant,this is going to mess !!!
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12-26-2008, 07:44 PM
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Housing Buy -Outs .?
Yes, Gang , seems this has been on National 6:30pm tv news last few night .
Made the Chatt 5pm news same, day . Some reports are saying all the FISH kills happened when the wall of water THREW them up on shore, rather than all this Toxic chemicals reporters keep mentioning.
. Remember Jan was suppose to be a 20% rate reduction , because of the decrease $ cost of gasoline. Wonder if that will now be thrown out .!
Guess the neighborly thing to do would Buy OUt the housing property of all affected , Then have more land to store this somewhat re-cycle road material in future.
. Doubt if the 6 houses would want to re-build on that soft dirt. Hard to re-sell even in the future. Knew it was a MESS from the 1st minute.
NOt sure how many towns take drinking water out of river . South of Dayton our Bakewell company has lots of WELLS it draws from.
.. INitially all news quoted a Earthen Dam or D.i.k.e, but our board **** erases those terms. Maybe dyke, but my 09 New Years Resooluution will be to use better spelling.?
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