Widows Creek Spill/Leak/Rupture Part3 Aerial Photos.

Photo by Hurricane Creek Keeper John Waltham - South Wings Aviation.

Update: Monday, Jan. 12, 2009: Reports are surfacing that more than ash may be dumped into the ash holding ponds at Widows Creek. (Freethinker1963 or anyone else that has info on petroleum products or other hazardous wastes being dumped at Widows Creek , other TVA sites or the Tennessee River in Alabama or east Tennessee contact me at arklite2go@yahoo.com .) Link listing the hazardous materials found at Widows Creek TVA Ash Ponds: http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/pubs/Widows%20Creek%20v%20%20Kingston.pdf
TVA has issued a press release today that no dangerous materials were revealed in water testing. TVA Test Results indicate high levels of metals and petroleum products: http://www.tva.gov/emergency/pdf/MICROBAC%20CERTIFICATE_WC.pdf Independent testing is being accomplished. TVA has demonstrated a high level of deceit in reporting of the spills in Harriman Tn. as well as the Widows Creek, Al. spill. More from the Enviromental Integrity Project http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/pub590.cfm
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Another hole opening up in the ash pond? Notice the dark area in the corner of the ash pond. The river is the body of water slightly visible on bottom left of photo. The Waterkeepers Alliance is conducting independent testing of this hazardous waste spill.

Photo by Hurricane Creek Keeper John Waltham - South Wings Aviation.

Cenospheres moving downstream with a heavier sludge layer evident to the right of the photo.

Mr. John Moulton of TVA Public Relations denies photo's of the ash release 17 miles downstream is evidence of the extent of the spill. Further investigation reveals TVA's level of deceit as evidenced by these photographs and the photomicrograph below. Quote from Mr. Moulton in the Tennessean article, "TVA spokesman John Moulton said he didn't believe that whatever Morgan had pictured in photographs was ash or gypsum from either the Kingston or Widows Creek spills. "Most of what was released into Widows Creek was water, to our knowledge it is not ash and it is not gypsum" Moulton said." (Story link in part 2 article below.) Evidence is provided that Mr. Moulton and the TVA's claim concerning the extent of this spill are not truthful, nor knowledgeable and is not contained.

Photo by Hurricane Creek Keeper John Waltham - South Wings Aviation.

More evidence of a subsurface ash sludge flow from Widows Creek along the north shore of the Tennessee River. Cenospheres are also seen lining the shoreline. I think this group of photos are part of damning evidence that the spill from Widows Creek is greater than originally stated by the TVA. These photos reveal the hazardous waste spilling from Widows Creek is not contained.

Photo by Hurricane Creek Keeper John Waltham - South Wings Aviation.

The sub-surface sludge waste flow in the river in front of the Widows Creek Fossil Plant.

Photo by Hurricane Creek Keeper John Waltham - South Wings Aviation.

Leakage evident in Widows Creek spilling into the river from ash pond(s).
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Many thanks to "Creekkeeper," the Hurricaine Creek and Waterkeeper Alliance for these photos. http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll297/creekkeeper_2008/Widow%20Creek%20Ash%20Spill/ The extent of the spill is evident in the aerial photos. It is also evident that the extent of the hazardous waste sludge and ash release is greater than what the TVA has stated. Aerial photos reveal a large subsurface sludge mass progressing downstream.

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Microscopic examination, photo below, of the material reveals it is in fact part of the ash and sludge storage from Widows Creek Fossil Plant that has spilled into the Tennessee River.