Fri
Jul 24 2009
02:28 pm
Any photos just after the catastrophe?
By: SFCharlie

I'm looking for photos that show the south end of the Swan Pond dike near the plant entrance flowing over Swan Pond road. The sooner after the spill the better. (Before TVA cleared away the evidence.) TVA had an iconic photo on their site showing the railroad crossing sign and the dike, grass and all ,covering Swan Pond Rd and the track, but I can no longer find that photo set. I don't blame them for wanting to focus on the recovery; I just didn't have the sense to archive it when it was available…)
If someone has a film photo, is there someone on this site who could scan it for them?
Thank you all very much.

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Here is the TVA Disaster image gallery for Roane Views

Submitted by WhitesCreek on July 24, 2009 - 2:40pm.

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hey charlie....

Submitted by nomorelifeonswanpond on July 24, 2009 - 3:14pm.

is this what kind you are looking for?

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let me know.... These are from Mushy's Captures

Those Are Amazing Pictures

Submitted by personwhocares on July 24, 2009 - 4:35pm.

Thanks for letting us see those. They are amazing pictures of the mess.

Wow!

Submitted by WhitesCreek on July 24, 2009 - 6:14pm.

Those are amazing shots.

Did you try?

Submitted by onetahiti on July 24, 2009 - 4:46pm.

The image may still be online in Googles, Bing's, Yahoo's, or other cache, or at archive.org.

If you haven't cleaned out your own cache, it may be there too.

-- OneTahiti

Shame

Submitted by creekrisen on July 26, 2009 - 8:31pm.

I ran into a friend Friday who said he had been to the famous sand bar just upstream of the spill site.Said on the channel side it was knee deep in sludge. On the cove side it was like it used to be. I'll not be taking my new boat up there. We don't believe it will be cleaned up in our life time.Clean out the river channel, contain it and leave it where it is.

Mammyscreek

I Have Heard That Too

Submitted by personwhocares on July 28, 2009 - 9:20am.

A lady from the Cumberland Utility District told me that a friend of her families had taken their boat to the same sand bar and when her friend stepped off his boat into the water at the sand bar, he was also knee deep in ash sludge. She said that she was never going to take her children swimming in that area again, because she doesn't want them to get sick. What a sad area it has become. It is amazing that people still go to the sand bar. TVA knows that it is like that there with the ash sludge, and they don't even warn the people not to get in the water there.

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