this time Widows Creek in north Alabama — has spilled into a waterway, bringing more emergency action and more calls from environmentalists to regulate the material.The Tennessee Valley Authority, which estimated the spill at 10,000 gallons, placed booms in Widows Creek, which runs through the plant site, to stop the waste from moving downstream, said Scott Hughes, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Widows Creek Fossil Plant
Stevenson, Alabama
Photo Courtesy of TVA
The material unloosed was a mixture of water and gypsum, which can contain potentially toxic substances.
The material unloosed was a mixture of water and gypsum, which can contain potentially toxic substances.
The discovery of the spill came just one day after a U.S. Senate committee hearing on TVA's Dec. 22 catastrophic coal ash slide at its Kingston power plant in East Tennessee.
TVA says the spill in Alabama is unlike the Kingston spill. It is smaller; involved mostly water, not sludge; and was caused not by a break in a holding wall, but by the failure of a pipe cap.
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