TVA spill estimated at 10,000 gallons (new one this time Alabama)

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: Knox News

STEVENSON, Ala. - Alabama officials are estimating the volume of today's spill at TVA's Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama to be about 10,000 gallons of gypsum material.

The Tennessee Valley Authority says a waste pond at its Widows Creek plant ruptured but that the spill has been contained.

"We had an upper pond of water that is generated from an air pollution control device - not coal ash," Hughs said. "That material flowed into a second pond, and when it did, it overwhelmed the second pond and some of the liquid overwhelmed the spillway and went into Widows Creek."

The Widows Creek Fossil Plant is located on Guntersville Reservoir on the Tennessee River. Electricity is produced at Widows Creek's eight coal-fired units by heating water in a boiler to produce steam.

Read more: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jan/09/tva-second-coal-rupture/

[Idealism]

1. The TVA is on a roll baby

Where's the hat-trick coming from

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. The $700,000+ bonus the executives of the TVA received are paying off.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The recession is not hurting the paychecks of some of the Tennessee Valley Authority's top executives, who are cashing six-figure bonus checks.



According to federal documents, the CEO of TVA, Tom Kilgore, makes $655,000 a year. In addition to his salary, he received an incentive bonus of more than $1 million for 2008, bringing his total income to $2.4 million.


TVA awarded the incentives because the executives met certain performance goals.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28393625/

[Idealism]

3. Heckuva job Tommy

[NashVegas]

4. I've Got To Wonder ....

There was a story this morning about a spill into the Ocoee.

http://tennessean.com/article/20090109/GREEN02/901090358

Call me paranoid, but if we start hearing calls to privatize TVA, I'd start wondering about sabotage.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Something is wrong with the TVA

and I don't disagree with you.

[MinM]

5. Dam you, FDR

;)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4794820

[jwirr]

7. Over the last 8 years the environmental laws have been weekend

and now we have the results.

[bamademo]

8. Great, that's about 50 miles from where I live in Huntsville.

Tennessee river runs through S. Huntsville.