Clinch River

In this article: Coal, Clean Water Act, Pollution, and North Carolina

The Clinch drainage basin, located within the upper Tennessee drainage basin The Clinch River rises in Southwest Virginia near Tazewell, VA and flows southwest through the Great Appalachian Valley, gathering various tributaries including...

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In this July 8, 2009 photo, Canada Geese swim near a floating yellow barrier in the Clinch River designed to catch fly ash from a massive coal ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant at...

In this article: Coal, Roane County, Kingston Fossil Plant, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee, Toxin, Kingston, Tenn, and Harriman

...drop in construction costs. The most expensive of the projects announced Friday is the replacement of a 73-year-old bridge over the Clinch River in Union County. It is expected to cost more than $20 million. Five other projects each costing...

In this article: All rights reserved, Union County, Perry, Georgia, and Tennessee

...process uses a fluorometer to measure the fluorescence signal of algae that grow naturally in source water such as Tennessee's Clinch River, which was used in this study. Researchers exploit the known characteristics of Photosystems I and...

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Melton Hill Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Clinch River just south of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1960s to extend the Tennessee Valley's continuous...

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...80 east of the town of Honaker . From there it heads in a general northeasterly direction to the Clinch River at Gardner . SR 67 follows the Clinch River to the settlement of Swords Creek and then heads north next to Swords Creek to Dye .

In this article: U.S., Honaker, Buchanan County, and Big Creek

The site for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor was a land parcel owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) adjacent to the Clinch River in Roane County, Tennessee, inside the city limits of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but remote from the...

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...a Tennessee Valley Authority generating plant about 40 miles west of Knoxville on the banks of the Emory River, which feeds into the Clinch River, and then the Tennessee River just downstream. Holly Schean, a waitress whose home, which she...

In this article: Coal, Tennessee, Fly ash, EPA, Arsenic, Kingston Fossil Plant, Cancer, and Tennessee Valley Authority

...three homes were deemed uninhabitable, a TVA spokesman told CNN. The plant sits on a tributary of the Tennessee River called the Clinch River. "We deeply regret that a retention wall for ash containment at our Kingston Fossil Plant...

In this article: Coal, Exxon Valdez oil spill, Waste, Fly ash, Environmental Protection Agency, Kingston Fossil Plant, and Tennessee