EPA: Rivers High in Arsenic, Heavy Metals After Sludge Spill

By Richard Chasey, posted on January 1st, 2009 in Disasters, Water

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Originally Published by Truthout - environment

The Environmental Protection Agency has found high levels of arsenic and heavy metals in two rivers in central Tennessee that are near the site of a spill that unleashed more than a billion gallons of coal waste.

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