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Prudent action that i have seen diener take since the litigation against these utilities has started. i think this is a progressive step forward that is typically unusual of diener. could this leak at the dan river plant have been prevented? was it was this the sort of thing that was foreseen, that people were worried about with those lawsuits they were filing? yes. this was absolutely 100% preventable, rachel. what we know is that these coal ash ponds, anytime they re storing toix coal ash in an unlined hole in the ground adjacent to our surface waters, that there s a risk to the public. there s a risk to our drinking water, the public s right for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water to utilize for their recreation and for their personal benefit. and even though this spill is the outward sign, we saw the outward sign of the spill in kingston, tennessee in 2008, and this is the outward sign of a ....