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Consultant: Combination of Factors in Ash Spill

News Channel 5

June 25, 2009

A consultant's report says a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee resulted from a combination of factors that developed over five decades of operation.

Engineer Bill Walton of AECOM USA Inc. told a news conference Thursday that the huge coal ash storage facility at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant was "on the verge of failure" for some time before it actually collapsed in December.

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