A fly ash retention pond at a Tennessee coal-fired steam plant
failed, spreading 2.6 million cubic yards of the stuff over about 400
acres of the surrounding landscape. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/de...-covers-acres/
No doubt the company media folks will spin this as just a big mess;
but the fact is there's a good deal of heavy metals & other bad ****
in that stuff.

I know its a comfortable distance west of the good streams in western
NC; but what's the overall impact going to be on local streams in that
area?