Tennessee's Toxic Nightmare


	Tennessee's Toxic Nightmare

chestnut501

1-2-2009 11:27 PM

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news, environment, coal ash, tva, epa, tennessee

chestnut501 says:

Arsenic Levels 35 to 300 Times EPA Standard for Drinking Water

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1-3-2009 6:48 PM

ofcapri

I fear there are going to be some serious problems resulting from this tragedy. It will probably be decades before we really know the results on human life and the environment.

1-5-2009 2:35 PM

tanyamm

And I heard on the news that the water was safe to drink?

1-5-2009 2:45 PM

chestnut501

Don't be drinking it if you live within 50 miles of that place and I'm not sure that's even far enough away because its gotten in the rivers and streams. Boiling it won't help either. You don't live anywhere near there do you tanyamm?

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