Work still remains 2 years after Kingston ash spill
WBIR.com
Dec 22, 2010 This morning marks exactly two years since the disaster at the TVA plant in Kingston. That’s when an ash pond broke and dumped nearly a billion gallons of sludge on Roane County. That night was very cold. It was 12 degrees when the slide hit. Unforgettably, there was a man who had to climb through that freezing sludge when the slide ripped his house off its foundation. When daybreak hit, you could see the full extent of the damage. In the time since the ash pond broke in December 2008, TVA has bought 174 houses around the spill. Those residents relocated. Then the EPA took over the cleanup. They finished dredging the river back in June of this year. And as of Wednesday crews have removed about four million cubic yards of ash from the site. Right now TVA says there is still about three more years of work to finish cleaning the ash spill. Dollar figures constantly change, but right now TVA expects the entire cleanup will cost $1.2 billion.
