HARRIMAN, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority's waiting for approval from the Environmental Protection Agency to move millions of tons of spilled fly ash from Roane County.

The utility plans to move three million tons of spilled sludge from the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant to a certified land fill in Alabama.

Those opposed to that , including a woman who says she lives near the proposed disposal site, crashed a TVA clean-up progress meeting in Kingston Tuesday night.

Covered head to toe in protective suit and wearing a breathing mask, Betsy Ramaccia doesn't look like your typical paper carrier.

But she is delivering newspapers with the added headline " Perry County: The News Ash Hole of Alabama."

"It's an environmental injustice and it's social injustice," Ramaccia said, "We're concerned about a new group of citizens about to be affected by this ash spill."

Millions of cubic yards of the sludge spewed from a failed retention pond at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant six months ago.

But Ramaccia's not from Roane County. She says she drove from Alabama, and she lives minutes from Perry County.

That's where TVA says it's planning to haul three million tons of ash by train to a state-certified land fill.

Ramaccia and others from around the country approached anyone attending TVA's ash clean-up progress meeting Tuesday night.

"Being here where it happened is part of the problem, but the problem's spreading." Ramaccia said.

The destination's not final.

"It's still under review," Environmental Protection Agency On-Scene Coordinator Leo Francendese said.

The EPA doesn't pick the disposal sites, but does have to O-K them and the transportation plan to get the ash there.

TVA's added more rail line near the on-site temporary ash storage location. The utility said that's so train cars can pull up to load up more easily.

TVA says it's already successfully moved nearly 600 tons of ash in a test-run to Perry County site.

"It's very safe," TVA's Deputy Program Manager for Kingston Recovery Kathryn Copeland said.

"Rail is one of the safer means of transport as opposed to truck," Francendese said.

Still, some Roane County homeowners, like Charles Phillips, also worry moving the ash will cause more problems.

"If it all dries out and it's taken by train, if it ain't wet, it's going to get in the air anyway," Phillips said.

"All the rail cars will either have a burrito type liner that encapsulates the entire car, or will have separate liners. One that fits inside and a tarp cover on the outside," Copeland said.

TVA says it still has to develop a long-term disposal plan for any ash not going to Alabama and any ash from future operations.

A Cumberland County coal mine's another possible ash storage site.

Cumberland County Commission has approved a company to submit a proposal to TVA.

However, the utility says it hasn't gotten that yet.

TVA says if the train derails while transporting ash, the railroad company would deal with any spilled ash.

The EPA says there are no firm plans to move fly ash by truck, but it's under consideration.

TVA also says it took ash on a test run to site in Georgia.