Dan River
Americannoun
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In 2014, a break in a pond at Duke Energy’s plant in Eden, N.C., sent 27 million gallons of sludge into the Dan River.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2020
“You know the thing with the Tennessee Valley river spill, and the same thing with the Dan River spill, a lot of that ash was never recovered,” Lisa Evans, a lawyer with Earthjustice, said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
The estimated 39,000 tons of coal ash spewed into the Dan River and coated the waterway for more than 70 miles.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2017
Another accident at a Duke Energy facility in North Carolina in February 2014 resulted in thousands of tons of coal ash pouring into the Dan River.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2017
Colonel Davie accompanied General Greene in his rapid retreat from the Catawba to the Dan River.
From Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical by C. L. Hunter
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