KINGSTON, Tenn. – Some water samples near a massive spill of coal ash in eastern Tennessee are showing high levels of arsenic.
TVA's environmental executive Anda Ray said the arsenic levels were high because of the type of measurement that the EPA used, which included soil mixed in with water.
"Those samples were not dissolved arsenic," Ray said. "The dissolved arsenic, which is what you look at for drinking water samples, are undetectable in all the cases. The elevated arsenic that the EPA is referring to is the data that we collected when it was stirred up. It is routinely filtered out through all water treatment plants."
Leave it to the media whores to downplay the severity of something like this when corporations are involved. This is a disaster pure and simple and no matter how it's spun this land will not be reclaimed in its entirety for decades if ever and you don't have to be an EPA specialist to make that determination!
It takes years to remove arsenic. Yes, the media just doesn't give a rat's butt about reporting the truth about the dangerous chemicals in our environment.
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