EPA's Dannena Bowman has been working hard to make their Kingston TVA website (link...) easier to use.
From the home page, she's put the photos, facts, documents, and the calendar in clickable tabs across the top of the page.
She's included before and after photos or slideshows of the progress for Dredging, Excavation, Disposal, Productivity, Nature and Extent (depth of ash in the river, covers 18 river miles), the Calendar, and others. Much of the pictures, etc. haven't been readily available 'till now.
Lisa, I would like to know how the ash depth info on the Nature and Extent tab compares with the reality in your cove.
I know there is still a long way to go to make it right, but it is heartening to see the progress, and the oversight.
Thank you all for letting the rest of the world know what's happening in Roane County, and of course for the photos of her beauty.
Respectfully,
Charlie
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A post on lifeonswanpond's blog (link...) moved me to make some overlays. (link...) The dot for the Adkisson cemetery seems to be at the equipment park on what EPA is calling the Berkshire slough.
In San Francisco, there are breakwaters in the ocean made of headstones of people who either did not have families or whose families did not have the money to move them to new cemeteries southwest of the city. The lands are now parks or in one case a college campus. I was startled to see that this was acceptable practice. I have seen documentation of "moved" cemeteries while researching TVA's history. I don't know what happened to the bodies in either case. I am surprised to see TVA behaving much as it did the thirties. Back then, there was cause for eminent domain to build the lakes, but today I would hope for them to behave in a more sensitive way. I am surprised to see the equipment park where the map places the cemetery. It is hard to imagine that the grave makers are protected under the crushed stone and will be restored after the stone is removed. I suppose it is possible that the dot on the map is only an approximate location and the grove of trees is where the cemetery is.
TVA Cultural Resources: Cemeteries Relocated by TVA (link...)
TVA Cemetery Relocation (link...)
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FAQ Technical Assistance Plan
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"…funding is provided to a qualified community group: (1) to hire a technical advisor(s) who can help … understand site cleanup issues and (2) …share … with others…"
Unfortunately, the leaflet was scanned as a photo, so it can't be searched
Almost every day new photos are added. Some days the collection gets edited down. Today they are helicopter shots of the "new and better" Swan Pond interim storm drainage (the plans are only on the TDEC website) and I don't know what pile of ash in the X lakeshore baylet.
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