Coal ash flows into the Dan River in Eden from a Duke Energy coal ash pond. A stormwater pipe broke underneath the unlined pond, allowing the coal ash to flow into the river, which is a source of water for the city of Danville, Va.
EPA Addresses Citizen Concerns
Media and concerned citizens listen to EPA representatives give an update Tuesday on the Feb. 2 coal ash spill at a shuttered Duke Energy plant in Eden.
EPA Addresses Citizen Concerns
Myles Bartos, the EPA on-scene coordinator, gives an update Tuesday on the Feb. 2 coal ash spill at a shuttered Duke Energy plant in Eden and answers community members’ concerns.
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Workers at the site of a broken pipe that led to a coal ash spill from Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden on Thursday.
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Duke Energy President Paul Newton (center) escorted N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory to the scene of a coal ash spill from a Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden on Thursday.
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NC Governor Pat McCrory discusses coal ash spill from Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden, on Feb. 6, 2014. (H. SCOTT HOFFMANN / News & Record)
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Duke Energy president Paul Newton escorted NC Governor Pat McCrory (l) to the scene of a coal ash spill from Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden, NC on Feb. 6, 2014. (H. SCOTT HOFFMANN / News & Record)
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Workers at the site of a broken pipe that led to a coal ash spill from Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden on Feb. 6.
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N.C. Governor Pat McCrory discusses the coal ash spill from a Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden.
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Duke Energy spokesperson Paige Sheehan explains how a coal ash spill happened at a Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden, NC on Feb. 6, 2014. (H. SCOTT HOFFMANN / News & Record)
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The Dan River shows a gray color as it flows over the Union Street dam in Danville, Va. on Wednesday.
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The Dan River as it flows under the Union Street bridge in Danville, Va. on Wednesday.
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Biologists with the Va. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior travel up the Dan River from the Abreu-Grogan Park landing in Danville, Va. on Wednesday. They will gather water and river bottom sediment samples from the coal ash spill at the Dan River Steam Station operated by Duke Energy upriver in Eden, N.C.
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Barry Dunklley of the Danville, Va., Utilities Department, explains Wednesday how two 24-inch pipes draw raw water from the Dan River into a treatment plant for the city's water supply. Water is being tested for any effects from the coal ash spill at the Dan River Steam Station operated by Duke Energy upriver in Eden.
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The Dan River is ashen colored as it flows over the Union Street dam in Danville, Va. on Wednesday.
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The Dan River flows over the Union Street dam on Wednesday in Danville, Va.
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Fresh water from a small stream meets the gray ashen water from the Dan River as it flows along the shoreline on Wednesday in Danville, Va.
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Fresh water from a small stream mixes with gray water from the Dan River as it flows along the shoreline in Danville, Va., on Wednesday.
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Corey Watkins runs across the Richmond & Danville Railroad bridge crossing over the Dan River in Danville, Va., on Wednesday. Watkins is training for the Galileo High School cross country team.
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Daniel Michaelson, biologist with Va. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, launches a boat into the Dan River in Danville, Va., on Wednesday.Â
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Daniel Michaelson (center) Va. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, launches a boat into the Dan River at the Abreu-Grogan Park landing on Wednesday in Danville, Va. He is U.S. government biologists Brett Hillman (left) and Craig Gigglemann (right) out to gather water and river bottom sediment samples.
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Biologists travel up the Dan River from the Abreu-Grogan Park landing in Danville, Va., on Wednesday.Â
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Biologist Daniel Michaelson of the Va. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, guides a boat into the Dan River at the Abreu-Grogan Park landing in Danville, Va., on Wednesday. Authorities are taking sediment and water samples after coal ash spilled into the river at the Dan River Steam Station operated by Duke Energy in Eden, N.C.Â
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The water of the Dan River is ashen colored in Danville, Va., on Wednesday.Â
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The ash-colored water of the Dan River in Danville, Va., on Wednesday.
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Biologists with the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Va. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries head upriver from Schoolfield boat landing at a dam on Wednesday. They will be gathering water and river bottom sentiment from the coal ash spill at the Dan River Steam Station operated by Duke Energy.Â
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The disturbance to the ash basin, caused by a broken storm pipe that runs underneath, at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station, on Tuesday in Eden, N.C.
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The disturbance to the ash basin, caused by a broken storm pipe that runs underneath, at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C.
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The disturbance to the ash basin, caused by a broken storm pipe that runs underneath, at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station, on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, in Eden, N.C.
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Looking from atop the berm that surrounds the basin (left), with the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station (right) in Eden, N.C.
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The disturbance to the ash basin, caused by a broken storm pipe that runs underneath, at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C.
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Coal ash flows from this stormwater pipe into the Dan River in Eden on Tuesday.
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Matt Wasson, with Appalachian Voices, talks about the impact to the Dan River while standing at Draper Landing, downstream of the ash basin leak at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station, on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, in Eden, N.C.
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Showing river bottom before (right) and after leak, Matt Wasson, with Appalachian Voices, talks about the impact to the Dan River while standing at Draper Landing, downstream of the ash basin leak at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station, on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, in Eden, N.C.
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Reenforcing and patching the berm, foreground, to the ash basin at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station, on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, in Eden, N.C.
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The water and ash that leaked from the basin caused erosion to the berm that surrounds the basin at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station, on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, in Eden, N.C.
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Corey Watkins runs across the Richmond & Danville Railroad bridge crossing over the Dan River in Danville, Va., on Wednesday. Watkins is training for the Galileo High School cross country team. Danville residents went about their business Wednesday, despite the coal ash spill on the river upstream.
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Showing river bottom before (right) and after leak, Matt Wasson of Appalachian Voices talks about the impact to the Dan River while standing at Draper Landing, downstream of the ash basin leak at the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station in Eden on Tuesday.
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(File) McCrory in Eden. Feb. 6, 2014.
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Workers at the site of a broken pipe that led to a coal ash spill Feb. 2, 2014, from Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden. Photo taken Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014.
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Shortly after the Feb. 2 coal ash leak into the Dan River, Matt Wasson of Appalachian Voices shows what the river bottom looked like before (right) and after the spill.
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This crack is in an earthen dike holding back millions of gallons of coal ash and contaminated water at Duke Energy’s Cape Fear Plant in Moncure, N.C.Â
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N.C. Governor Pat McCrory.
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N.C. Governor Pat McCrory
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Duke Energy President Paul Newton (center) escorted N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory to the scene of a coal ash spill from a Duke Energy facility along the Dan River in Eden on Feb. 6.
Environmentalists welcomed the news Tuesday that federal investigators subpoenaed more than 10 years of records from the N.C. Utilities Commis…
Moral Monday organizers had planned the meeting with health and environmental experts to discuss the environmental impacts of the Dan River spill.
EDEN — The future of the Dan River was not clear Wednesday night as state and federal environmental officials met with more than 100 local res…
Gov. Pat McCrory again clarified his position on coal ash basins Wednesday to say he favors moving the ponds of toxic material wherever possib…
The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Duke Energy have been subpoenaed to testify about the coal ash spill in the Dan River.
North Carolina's division of water quality advises residents to limit contact with the river as a precaution.
“We are still wondering: Were there people out fishing the Dan River that day?," says Peter Walz of the North Carolina Conservation Network.
Environmentalists say their tests show toxic levels of contaminants after the coal ash spill in the Dan River.
Eden was not affected because the city gets its water upstream of the coal ash spill, officials said.
North Carolina investigators have found problems at three plants and have tried to get Duke Energy to clean up 12.
Researchers say the river could soon be safe for agriculture as it recovers from ash spill.
State environmental officials are investigating a crack in the dam around a Duke Energy coal ash pond near the Cape Fear River in Chatham Coun…
Duke Energy found a second large deposit of coal ash in the Dan River and has hired a contractor to remove it, the N.C. Department of Environm…
There weren’t any curious onlookers gathering to catch a glimpse of the gray waters of the Dan River.
Duke Energy did not know how much coal sludge its dormant power plant in Eden had spewed into the Dan River or for how long it had been leakin…
Spill may have a long term environmental impact on the Dan River ecosystem.
A standing-room only crowd packed the Danville City Council chambers to hear officials address concerns over the Dan River spill.
A spokesman for Waterkeeper Alliance reports a pipe on the Dan river that is discharging water across oddly colored "orange-ish red," slimy rocks.
North Carolina's Attorney General Josh Stein and Duke Energy said Monday they have reached a settlement on coal ash clean-up expenses under wh…
As federal officials convene a grand jury this week to investigate the Dan River coal ash spill, they might want to look in an unlikely spot b…
