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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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EDEN â New signs warn people using the Dan River about the dangerous low-head dam near the Duke Energy Steam Station. But the Charlotte-based utility said this week it likely wonât remove or modify the dam where four people died in a family tubing accident two weeks ago. Duke Energy responded to the tragedy by commissioning new warning signs it placed along the river on June 22, said Duke Energy spokesman Bill Norton. The energy company had signs in place at the time of the accident, but the new signs feature bolder colors and larger-size type. One sign is placed 700 feet upstream o...
WOODY MARSHALL photos, NEWS & RECORD Ruben Villano is embraced at the prayer vigil for victims of the June 16 Dan River tubing accident in Eden. Villano was in the group of nine tubers floating down the river that went over a dam. Four people, including Villano, were rescued from the water the next day. Four bodies were recovered and one person remains missing. WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD Elias Meadows, 4, holds a candle at the prayer vigil Saturday for the victims of the June 16 Dan River tubing accident in Eden. WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD Greensboro News & Record Angelica Villano...
A wife and aunt, gone. A young dad, gone. An adored nephew, gone. A beloved teenage daughter, gone. Meanwhile, a sister who is an expectant mother is still missing. After more than a week of searching with the help of the state Highway Patrol and water rescue teams from neighboring counties, Rockingham County Emergency Services Director Rodney Cates said Friday, âOur search efforts are scaled back to county resources at this time.â Last Monday, the patrol sent a helicopter to Rockingham to assist in the recovery mission. On Wednesday, Cates and other officials worked with a private ...