Watch as Francie Harkenrider, owner of the Watts Bar Belle boat and restaurant docked near Kingston, Tenn., describes the effects that the TVA’s coal ash spill is having on her business. Coal ash blanketed more than 300 acres surrounding the Kingston steam plant after an earthen retaining wall around the plant's ash pond broke in December, emptying 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash into the adjacent river and low lying properties.
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