Major coal ash spill into Dan River North Carolina

Duke Energy waited 24 hours to report major coal ash spill into Dan River

An estimated 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash and up to 27 million gallons of water were released Sunday into the Dan River in northern North Carolina via a broken pipe underneath a waste containment pond, according to Duke Energy Corp.

A 48-inch stormwater pipe ruptured Sunday at the retired Dan River Steam Station in Eden, North Carolina, Duke Energy said. The ash pond above the pipe is around 27 acres large, and the dam containing the water is unharmed, the utility said, according to AP.

The broken pipe was not reported by Duke Energy or the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources until Monday - nearly 24 hours after the Sunday incident.

According to Duke Energy, a security guard first noticed an unusually low water level in the ash pond at around 14:00 EST on Sunday, leading to the discovery of the broken pipe. Duke Energy’s first public notice of the spill came just after 16:00 EST on Monday.

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Wouldn't it be great that if the environmental laws impacting rivers included the following: The intake water pipe for the plant must be located at least 50 feet downstream from the outflow pipe. That way the first one who is going to be impacted from a spill or "accident" would be the plant. Seems to me that would give industry plenty of motivation to prevent stuff going into the river that would mess up their operations. It would also help to ensure that the water is a little cleaner leaving a plant than it was going into a plant. If the public utilities that use water and them dump sewer stuff into the rivers were required this same law, that would really clean up the rivers.

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I think were watching false flags with all this infrastructure falling apart. The people are being set up to produce an order out of the chaos. This type of tyranny is on a scale no one can believe. Everything is weaponized on all levels, food, water, air, information, entertainment, to tenderize the populace before full take over.