On Sunday, Feb. 2, a stormwater pipe burst beneath a coal ash impoundment at Duke Energy’s retired Dan River Power Station near Eden. Duke Energy estimates that between 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash and up to 27 million gallons of wastewater have run into the Dan River as of Feb. 4.
That amount of ash is enough to fill 20-32 Olympic-sized swimming pools, for comparison the Kingston, Tenn., TVA disaster dumped more than 1 billion gallons of ash into the Clinch and Emory rivers.
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