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Come back. >> go on down there and do not come back. when you are the river keepers and duke energy is the power company, very often the power company wins. not always. last week the river keepers didn't just take their john boats out on the canal, they also flew over the coal ash ponds and from above they took these aerial photographs of the weirdly blue ponds filled with toxic ash. and look what they found. what's going on by that pickup truck down there? the river keeper spotted duke energy pumping water out of the bizarrely blue ponds with the toxic coal ash in them and into the canal. the...

And local sheriffs department came out to get a closer look at the river keepers. the guy in the but jacket is peter harrison, the river keepers' attorney. the other guy in the discussion here, obviously, is the law. >> what y'all got going on today? >> just cruising. >> why when these gentlemen tell you not to go new further you keep going? >> i thought we had the right to use the water. >> you do. what's the point of going all the way up there? fishing or anything? >> we're just looking around. >> okay. well, y'all have your i.d.s or anything on you? >> yeah. >> just need to see those real q...

Particularly interested in this orange stuff, whatever it is, leaving this orange trace along the banks. at the top of that canal, it connects to an old shutdown coal burning power plant that belongs to duke energy. that plant went dark in 2012. you can still see the leftovers from the coal that got burned there over the decades. the site has three ponds for the leftover coal ash which is filled with toxins and heavy metals like arsenic. we asked duke energy today why the water in the coal ash ponds is so weirdly teal blue. the spokesperson said he did not know but had seen the sky blue color ...

Is so weirdly teal blue. the spokesperson said he did not know but had seen the sky blue color in lakes and rivers sometimes. okay. last week, kemp burrdett and crew of river keepers took an old flat bottom metal boat for a ride on what they believe is a publicaal. wanted to get a closer look at the coal ash ponds so close to the river. when they were out on the boat, the nice people from duke energy and local sheriffs department came out to get a closer look at the river keepers. the guy in the but jacket is peter harrison, the river keepers' attorney. the other guy in the discussion here, ob...

>> we're just looking around. >> okay. well, y'all have your i.d.s or anything on you? >> yeah. >> just need to see those real quick. >> have we done something wrong? >> i'm just checking your i.d.s, man, you all coming up. here this is all the power plant's property. >> including the water that we're boating on? >> pretty sure. i can get wildlife out here. they'll scratch you a ticket. i'm not going to scratch you a ticket for nothing. i'm going to check your i.d.s and let you go ahead and go back down there and tell you not to come back. >> go on down there and do not come back. when you are...