Nearly two decades after TVA coal ash spill, pain lingers for families of cleanup workers

Nearly two decades after TVA coal ash spill, pain lingers for families of cleanup workers

Jessica Waller, whose father worked on cleanup of a massive Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash spill, reflects on the effects of his work nearly 20 years after the spill. (Photo: Benjamin Pounds for Tennessee Lookout)Seventeen years have passed since a massive rupture at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant spilled more than 1.1 billion gallons of coal ash into Harriman, Tenn., but the event is still raw in Jessica Waller’s mind. Waller’s father,…