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Jan 20 2009
04:23 pm
TVA's Toxicity Tests Fall Short
By: WRK

TVA's toxicity tests fall short
UTILITY'S METHODS OF ANALYZING ASH ARE TOO BROAD, CRITICS SAY
By Anne Paine • THE TENNESSEAN • January 19, 2009

The method TVA and others are using to test and analyze the toxicity of the coal ash splayed through a neighborhood, fields and streams beside TVA's Kingston power plant can't adequately determine the potential risk, experts say.

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I tend to agree with the

Submitted by WhitesCreek on January 20, 2009 - 5:03pm.

I tend to agree with the statements at the end of the article, but I would like to know more about this from independent scientists who don't have a dog in the hunt.

Water ph has to be considered. Oddly, I've been told by my hydrologist friend that the river and lake water is actually more alkaline and less likely to leach than the rain that the ash was exposed to in the ponds.

I will trust the EPA more in days to come, when we get more science and less politics. I look forward to getting some real information and help out of them. The cost of the additional test doesn't seem excessive, however.

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