Valley So Low - Author Discussion

Wed Mar 19 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:45 pm UTC-05:00

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Valley So Low - Author Discussion
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Join us for a Zoom call with Jared Sullivan, author of Valley So Low. This is relevant to Springfield as CWLP gets its coal from a mine with a similar coal sludge impoundment discussed in the book.
Doors open at 6:00pm. Author discussion begins at 6:300pm. Lincoln Library Carnegie North room.
For more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste sixty feet high and covering eighty-four acres, contained only by an earthen embankment. In 2008, just before Christmas, that embankment broke, unleashing a lethal wave of coal sludge that covered three hundred acres, damaged nearly thirty homes, and precipitating a cleanup effort that would cost more than a billion dollars—and the lives of more than fifty cleanup workers who inhaled the toxins it released.
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