Valley So Low - Author Discussion
Schedule
Wed Mar 19 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:45 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Lincoln Library, The Public Library of Springfield, IL | Springfield, IL
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Join us for a Zoom call with Jared Sullivan, author of Valley So Low. This is relevant to Springfield as CWLP gets its coal from a mine with a similar coal sludge impoundment discussed in the book.Doors open at 6:00pm. Author discussion begins at 6:300pm. Lincoln Library Carnegie North room.
For more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste sixty feet high and covering eighty-four acres, contained only by an earthen embankment. In 2008, just before Christmas, that embankment broke, unleashing a lethal wave of coal sludge that covered three hundred acres, damaged nearly thirty homes, and precipitating a cleanup effort that would cost more than a billion dollars—and the lives of more than fifty cleanup workers who inhaled the toxins it released.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/valley-so-low-one-lawyer-s-fight-for-justice-in-the-wake-of-america-s-great-coal-catastrophe-jared-sullivan/21085184?ean=9780593321119&next=t&next=t
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Where is it happening?
Lincoln Library, The Public Library of Springfield, IL, 326 S 7th St, Springfield, IL 62701-1621, United States,Springfield, IllinoisEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
