Judge rules TVA liable for massive ash spill
by Associated Press
Published: August 24,2012
Tags: ash, bench, courts, decision, electricity, energy, environment, judge, judicial, judiciary, lawsuit, liability, liable, pollution, power, ruling, spill, utility, wildlife
NORTH MISSISSIPPI — A federal judge has ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in 2008 in East Tennessee.
The judge ruled in favor of hundreds of plaintiffs who sued after a containment dike at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant burst Dec. 22, 2008. The failure spilled five million cubic yards of ash into a river and spoiled hundreds of acres in a riverside community 35 miles west of Knoxville.
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Varlan said in a written opinion that TVA was negligent in its conduct and will be liable for damages to be determined later.
TVA is continuing a $1.2 billion cleanup of the spill the Environmental Protection Agency described as one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind.
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August 25th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Who else would be liable for this environmental disaster? I lives in West Knoxville when the poison sludge spill occurred and the local and state media reported it matter-of-factly and quickly changed the subject. Heavy metals will be in the Tennessee River for decades due to this preventable “accident”.