A waste pond at a coal-burning power plant in northeast Alabama ruptured early Friday, but the spill was quickly contained, utility officials said.
TVA official Gil Francis said the leak at its Widows Creek coal-burning power plant in northeastern Alabama was caused by a break in a pipe that removes water from the 147-acre gypsum pond.
This is the second waste pond run by the Tennessee Valley Authority to rupture this year. The immediate cause is all the rain they have been getting lately. But still, it does not speak very well of the way they are run.