Tennessee #1 At Environmental Fuck Ups! We Knew We Could Do It! .......... Largest Environmental Disaster in the United States.........

New York Times

A coal ash spill in eastern Tennessee that experts were already calling the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States is more than three times as large as initially estimated, according to an updated survey by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Sludge Graphic

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/12/25/us/20081225_SLUDGE_GRAPHIC.html

More than a billion gallons of coal fly ash, a byproduct of burning coal, spilled Monday when the dike burst on a retention pond at the Kingston Fossil Plant. The spill covered 300 acres with sludge in Harriman, about 35 miles west of Knoxville. It dumped a mix of ash and water in the Emory River, causing residents of nearby Kingston to worry about their drinking water.

Three homes were destroyed and 42 property owners had damage of some kind, according to Roane County emergency management officials.

Full AP story-http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081229/ap_on_re_us/flooded_neighborhood