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Posted: 3:45 PM Apr 3, 2008
TVA to install $597M pollution control system on Smokies plant
The Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to install a $597 million pollution control system on a coal-fired power plant that's contributing to haze in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to install a $597 million pollution control system on a coal-fired power plant that's contributing to haze in the Great Smoky Mountains.
The 712-megawatt John Sevier plant in Rogersville will be getting smokestake scrubbers and a selective catalytic reduction system that are expected to reduce pollutants by more than 90 percent.
The plant is one of three TVA coal plants nearest the pollution-prone national park along the Tennessee-North Carolina border. Similar equipment already is being installed at those other plants in Kingston and Oak Ridge.
All three should be online by 2012.
TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore says the project was planned before North Carolina's attorney general sued TVA for polluting the Smokies and western North Carolina. The suit is set for trial in July.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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