Update: Icy Conditions Cause Problems On Sam’s Gap
Update:
Earlier this evening North Carolina authorities shutdown Interstate 26 on their side of the mountain because of icy conditions, but it is now re-open.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol tells News Channel 11 that the interstate through Unicoi County remains quite icy tonight; Drivers are urged to be extra cautious.
You can check road conditions in Tennessee, North carolina, and Virginia by dialing 511 for any cell or landline.
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Road crews are treating the interstate.
Law enforcement teams are rerouting drivers onto the Asheville Highway.
Dispatchers told us ice is making travel tricky in the Flag Pond area of Unicoi County.
Again, lanes of Interstate 26 on the North Carolina side of the mountain are closed at this hour due to hazardous travel conditions.
Your Tri-Cities News Source will continue to monitor the conditions and update you here on TriCities.com and tonight, on News Channel 11 Nightside.
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This is why this type of waste should not be contained by a dike. It should just flow down stream a little at a time, as the waste is generated. It will be much less harmful than the average nature volcanic waste. I like my electricity.
We don’t excuse hit men because killing is their “job”.
They can be re-educated to work in alternative energy at gov’t expense.
If that’s not good enough, they can build bird houses out of pop cycle sticks and sell them on ebay for all I care.
Our children come first.
There is no telling how many children will suffer long term effects from this spill and it’s toxins.
There is no doubt this kind of thing will happen again.
It’s only 2.6 million cubic yards, and what happens to all the jobs at the coal fields?
That’s not breaking news.
This is…..
Dec 23, 6:07 PM EST
Cleanup begins in wake of ash pond flood
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
Associated Press Writer
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—The Tennessee Valley Authority is working to contain the release of potentially toxic pollutants from the coal-fired Kingston power plant after a breach in an earthen dike released 2.6 million cubic yards of ash from a holding pond.
TVA President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Kilgore says a surface layer of ash is moving down the Emory River from the plant near Harriman, about 50 miles west of Knoxville. TVA hopes to trap it with a temporary dike on the Emory River and a boom farther downstream on the Tennessee River.
State and federal environmental officials are waiting for results of water quality tests. But Kilgore says preliminary tests by TVA show the water is safe.
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This is “clean coal”.
The coal industry must be shut down in favor of renewable energy. This is a far greater disaster than the incompetent media is reporting.
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