Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

An east Tennessee county littered with more than a billion gallons of toxic sludge will spend $1 million of the $43 million given to it by the utility that damaged the adjacent land to clean up the community’s tattered image.

The money was given to Roane County, Tenn., last month by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to help bolster the community’s public image and improve its infrastructure. The utility’s offering comes in the midst of a multi-year, $1 billion cleanup of hundreds of acres in the county that was damaged when a coal ash impoundment pond burst last December, sending a wave of toxic material onto property and into the Emory River.

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