The state agency also posted the video on its website at the web page devoted to the “Dan River Spill,” http://danriverspill.ncdenr.gov.  The video posted this week is of a 36-inch reinforced concrete pipe that carries storm water from a drainage area on the Duke Energy property to the Dan River by traversing beneath the failed coal ash pond. 

 

To access the video, go to http://alturl.com/yx5zq. 

 

According to DENR, the video prompted the Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources’ Dam Safety to send a letter to Duke Energy expressing concerns about the conduit and its “potential by configuration to release ash material in a way similar to the 48-inch conduit.”

 

 A 48-inch reinforced concrete and corrugated steel stormwater pipe beneath this same ash pond was discovered by a Duke Energy employee on Feb. 2 to have broken and released 30,000-to-39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River near Eden.