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Coal ash, like the 1.1 billion gallons of the toxic mess that spilled on to 300 acres of rural east Tennessee property destroying homes and damaging property in its wake, is commonly sold by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to companies at a profit and used in concrete for roads, bridges, concrete blocks for buildings, material for wallboard, granules for roofing shingles, grit for sandblasters and filler material for recreation areas such as ball fields and industrial parks, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution/Associated Press. Coal ash is also used in to supplement crop soil to enhance growth and help soil retain water.

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Four lawsuits have been filed by Kingston, Tennessee property owners against the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as a result of December’s toxic spill that dumped more than a billion pounds of coal ash on to 300 acres of a rural east Tennessee community, according to the Tennessean. 

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“The value of the property is gone. Nobody’s going to want to buy it,” says Wesley Self as he walks in his mother’s front yard in rural East Tennessee, the home where she had lived for 35 years. Her property was one of the 300 acres damaged in the Dec. 22 coal ash spill that dumped more than a billion gallons of toxic ash and sludge on to land and rivers, destroying property in its wake, according to the Knoxville Biz.

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