Madman of Midtown

Tennessee, country of the rivers, lakes and forests. Nature purely in the heart America. So for a long time one does not even look so exactly. Fly ash is what clouds water and idyl. The lake is closed for months, the houses stands empty. Given up after an environment disaster, whose extent is still examined - the largest their kind in US history. We are close of the city Kingston, where the operators of a coal-fired power station up-poured poisonous for many decades ash mud to an enormous waste dump. Until the dams and the underground did not withstand that any longer. Poisonous mud contaminates the farm country Steve Scarborough speaks for all adjacents resident: „The whole Konstrukt was criminal. In investigation reports it is located that they had taken only three drilling samples from the underground. Thus lax one would not put on times the water pool of a farm. “ Inexorably the poison mud flowed into the landscape. First measurements resulted in alone in the case of arsenic the 35-fache of the limit values for drinking water. „Several-day-long were angespült dead fish, which Aschebrühe has a part of my farm country covered and still more of it contaminated “, farmer Terry Gupton complains, „because the river water accumulated and with it mixed. They can see it still, because the valley is still blocked of ashes, cannot that all any longer flow off. We know that it is poisonous. “ Clean-up operations are expensive and lengthy Actually the US environmental protection authority never classified ash mud as health-endangering. The industry always repelled controls as too expensive. Now clean-up operations all the more cost. „Which one cannot see here is that on the river reason still up to ten meters highly mud is appropriate “, says for work engineer Dennis Yankee. „To suck off, still months will take. “ So that the wind cannot blow anything away, engineers pump ashes to a water circle. Thus it remains further damp, just as the new substances, which the power station continues to discharge. The costs of the evacuation into a more suitable dump carry now the current customers - who wanted to preserve America politics so for a long time. Energy should remain cheap. Now here daily hundred railroad cars poison mud roll of the area. Adjacents resident want to be compensated Meanwhile our hosts Dennis Yankee practice of the Tennessee Valley power station in beautiful speeches. „I think, from today's viewpoint give it to reference on construction problems within the dam range. But one must also see that this dump was away up-poured over fifty years and since things were changed again and again, without knowing exactly, on which one the actually up-poured. There surely much accumulated. “ „There are certain poisonous components “, admit Kathryn Nash of the Tennessee Valley power station. „We cannot say, what will make the environmental protection authority. I think, there now many emotions play. Many are furious, because they are strongly of the misfortune concerned. But purely scientifically regarded, there is no reason to the concern. “ Thus the work changes to putting on the mud into the environment now as grass country. It bought up the houses to a large extent. Farmer Gupton however waits on compensation until today. Its it lets cattle eat hardly still on the pasture. Besides it complains that with the dams the number of the abortions rises. But it did not find a new farm yet. „Each day, which is we still here, is a lost day. For us and for the enterprise “, farmer Terry Gupton complains. Besides cost the law case money. „We did not get a dollar. We must in-complain everything before court. “ Many further poisonous dumps exist in the USA The company spokespeople praise the clearing work in the meantime as the largest research project in the region. , Critics grumble all Wischi Waschi. America limps environmentallegally to the west around decades afterwards. The environmental custodians actually announced country-wide last in Washington over thousand similar dumps, which hardly supervises most of it. Often sources of drinking water and rivers are already contaminated. After Kingston, the officials a colleague delegated Tennessee, who hopes now for few rains. „If the river too much water leads here, cannot let it not accumulate I, because it would then flood the houses and the work. Thus remains only to take out up to then as much ash mud as possible there. Yes, we hang very from the weather “, explain Leo Francendese of the US environmental protection agency. „A tsunami could further-rinse the poisons “, says also environmentalist Steve Scarborough. „However for it to dig there “, then he astonishes us at the end, „everything would still aggravate. Because there down radioactive substances from a close weapon waffenschmiede rest for decades. Better one brings there nothing more in disorder. “ Oh, which concerns health damage by fly ash, the work operators proved amazingly to much distance vision. Late sequences, then it is called in compensation contracts, is not in complainable any longer. Author: Klaus Scherer, pool of broadcasting corporations studio Washington

That's pretty rough for sure. I know what I said at least. But thanks for giving it a try. That helps me see what they said I said.

Steve