TVA says hazard rating 'high' at 4 coal ash sites

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.

On Thursday, the federal utility wrote EPA that “in the interest of taking a conservative, self-critical approach,” TVA reassessed the potential for harm as “high” for those living near the Bull Run and Cumberland coal-fired plants in Tennessee and the Colbert and Widows Creek plants in Alabama.

A “high” hazard ranking under the government’s dam safety hazard system means that if a disaster happened it would likely result in economic and environmental damage and “will probably cause loss of human life.”

AP