10 years ago, one of the largest coal ash disasters changed NC environmental history

It happened on a Sunday. A pipe running under a coal basin at the retired Dan River Steam Station, a Duke Energy power plant, broke. Thousands of tons of coal ash were sucked out into the river.

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