Can America Clean Up from Its Worst Environmental Disaster?
[Contains Photo Slideshow] By Antrim Caskey, AlterNet Posted on January 5, 2009, Printed on January 8, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/116933/ Editor’s Note: You can watch an incredible photo slideshow of the effects of the coal ash sludge spill at the bottom of this story. Harriman, TN – On December 26, 2008, the Roane County Codes Enforcement Office condemned three homes along Swan Pond Circle Road in Harriman, Tennessee, four days after 5.4 million cubic yards, more than 1 billion gallons, of coal combustion waste (CCW) slurry surged, “like a tsunami” according to residents, into the confluence of the Emory and Clinch Rivers after breaking a 40-acre holding pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston coal-fired power plant. The Schean family lake house, which they had spent that last 3.5 years restoring from a beaten up lakeside shack, was thrown off its foundation across the road thirty feet. Fifty-three-year-old James Schean was asleep in bed when the earthen retain
