I thank you for representing our State and we recognize your superior influence as well as your desire to serve our State.

The recent TVA Coal Ash Disaster of 12/22/08, presents a dilemma:

Protection of low utility rates for the citizens in the State of Tennessee

Protection of jobs in Tennessee

Protection for those who have suffered loss

Protection for those whom TVA has purposely denied the truth

We need your help in all of the above points yet our community has suffered immensely:

Loss of property values

Loss of health security due to health risks due to the hazardous Coal Ash spilled over our land

Loss of freedom to use our waterways, waterways which are forever environmentally due to the Coal Ash spill.

Loss of a lifestyle we once enjoyed

Our neighborhood is forever changed

Our neighbors have moved due to TVA’s buy-out

No one in their right mind would purchase the once occupied homes – the families are gone being replaced with contract TVA workers. Not very comforting to see our community be turned into a TVA compound.

We fear the Coal Ash is hazardous and now it has been displaced over hundreds of acres of land with no way to 100% suppress the drying and subsequent flying of the hazardous Coal Ash.

We fear the long term health impacts from exposure

We fear the loss of the ability to ever recreate in the rivers, fish & eat the catch, enjoy the wildlife, aquatic life, and birds who rely on the now poisoned waterways.

This is not about people taking “glee and advantage” of TVA for monetary purposes. This is about our once very lovely community now destroyed due to TVA’s neglect thus placing us at risk and changing our lives forever, changing the lives of our children, and basically allowing TVA to walk away without being accountable.

Please help us, please as we have been severely damaged.