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TVA Reports Another Coal Ash Spill

STEVENSON, Ala. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority said a waste pond at its Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama has ruptured, but the spill has been contained.

TVA spokesman John Moulton said the leak in the pond was discovered at about 6 a.m. at the plant near Stevenson, Ala. He said most of the material from the leak flowed into a settling pond at the plant site but some spilled into Widows Creek.

The federal utility said the leak of what it described as gypsum has stopped and it is repairing the pond. It doesn't have an estimate on much material spilled, and the cause of the failure is under investigation.

The Dec. 22 rupture at the TVA plant in Kingston, Tenn., poured out 1 billion gallons of toxic-laden coal ash.

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