This just hurts my heart The ash pond at the steam plant 2 miles from my parents house, where I grew up, "failed" last night sending ash and mud flooding nearly 250 acres. →[More:]This area was so beautiful. It will never be the same again. The ash and mud not only swept away roads and houses but filled the lake inlet that was beside it. That little inlet was fun to fish in, had a local beaver family, always had herons wading around, and deer could be seen year round. That area had a lot of wild life living there. Now that part of the lake is full of soot. The fish nearby are already showing up on the shores. The news seems to be ignoring the fact that ash is filled with arsenic and other heavy metals. This is going to impact our water table and the many springs in the area. No matter how much they clean, it will never ever be the same.

That lake feeds the Clinch river which feeds into the Tennessee.

Oh this is just awful.