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[E3 wise]

http://www.waterworl...ears-later.html
WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 12, 2013 -- According to a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), severe toxic groundwater pollution has occurred at all 11 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal plants, with concentrations of arsenic, boron, cobalt, manganese, and other pollutants exceeding health-based guidelines in dozens of downgradient wells.

Five years after the billion-gallon coal ash spill in Kingston, Tenn., the report shows that decades of mismanagement have led to the contamination. The EIP analysis indicates that the TVA pollutants are associated with coal ash and exceed health-based guidelines. Further, the report -- based primarily on Freedom of Information Act requests -- also shows that TVA is not adequately monitoring much of the groundwater around its ash disposal areas.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Sadly, this will happen more often with coal and fracking holding ponds not being contained.