NASHVILLE — Four years after a massive coal ash spill in East
Tennessee, environmental conservation groups have launched an
interactive website and map that shows the location and hazard
risks for coal ash sites at 100 power plants throughout the
Southeast. The website, www.southeastcoalash.org , is a project
of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Appalachian Voices,
Southern Environmental Law Center and North Carolina
Conservation Network. Since the 2008 spill of 5 million cubic
yards of ash into a river about 35 miles west of Knoxville at
the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil plant,
environmentalists have been increasingly sounding an alarm about
coal ash, a waste byproduct stored at coal-fired plants, and the
possibility of water contamination. The site lists details on
coal ash impoundments for power plants in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia. The details include the size and
location, local maps, nearby waterways and w