NATIONAL BRIEFING / TENNESSEE
Federal data show arsenic levels more than 100 times the acceptable amount in a river near a massive coal ash spill in Kingston.
The Environmental Protection Agency has said that water samples from near the spill were above federal maximums for contaminants. Newly released tests showed arsenic levels in one sample were 149 times the maximum.
Data also showed that samples taken near the Kingston water treatment plant -- upstream from the spill -- were within federal limits except for thallium.
A retention pond burst at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant last month, spreading more than a billion gallons of sludge.
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