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EPA Approves and TVA Begins Ash Shipments to Ala.
posted 07/02/09
1:09 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it would allow TVA to send the material from the site of a huge spill in eastern Tennessee to the Arrowhead Landfill in Perry County, Ala.
EPA said the shipments could begin immediately. The Tennessee Valley Authority says it will begin its shipments on Thursday, sending the ash by rail to Alabama.
Opponents of the plan say TVA is dumping on poor people in rural Alabama. But a statement by EPA said the landfill near Uniontown is well-suited for accepting the shipments.
TVA has said it wants to use the landfill to dispose of about 3 million cubic yards of coal ash that was released when a dike burst at a plant at Kingston, Tenn., in December.
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