Asheville Citizen-Times
Clarke Morrison
It took only a little more than 2 inches of rain to drive open a breach 60 feet wide and 25 feet deep in an internal dike at Duke Energy’s Asheville coal ash ponds.
But that failure in 2012 wasn’t enough to convince Duke to comply with requests from state environmental officials that the utility update its plan for dealing with a disaster that could put the public at great risk.
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