EPA allows TVA to dump agitated atramentous ash in Ala.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The federal government has accustomed the Tennessee Valley Authority's plan to actuate of millions of bags of agitated atramentous ash in a behemothic bartering landfill in Alabama.
Opponents say TVA is auctioning unfairly abreast rural bodies in one of Alabama's atomic counties.
But the Environmental Protection Agency said in a account Thursday it will acquiesce the accessible account to move the ash from the armpit of a huge discharge in Tennessee to Perry County in axial Alabama.
EPA said the shipments could activate immediately. It said the Arrowhead Landfill is adapted for the ash that contains baneful abstracts such as arsenic and lead.
TVA affairs to use the landfill for about 3 actor cubic yards of atramentous ash that agitated back a barricade access at a bulb at Kingston, Tenn., in December.
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