TVA - Coal Ash update
TVA: Pond had problems for decades
Report shows agency opted not to pay for long-term solution
Leaks, seepage and water-logged walls plagued the fly ash retention pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant for years before the structure's Dec. 22 catastrophic failure, according to the agency's February 2008 inspection report.
While TVA hasn't ended its official probe into the cause of the failure, the report indicates the agency knew about leaks at the site for more than two decades and opted not to pay for long-term solutions to the problem.
Read on here.
http://www.tva.gov/power/coalart.htm
ReplyDeleteThe Kingston plant generates about 10 billion kilowatt-hours a year, or enough electricity to supply 700,000 homes. To meet this demand, Kingston burns about 14,000 tons of coal a day, an amount that would fill 140 railroad cars.