While TVA has gotten heat over its decision to ship by rail tons of coal-ash from that spill in Tennessee in December to a landfill in Perry County Alabama, at least they didn't do what's alleged in a lawsuit in Virginia. According to a story in the Virginia Pilot newspaper, Dominion Virginia Power found a unique way to get rid of it's coal-ash before a spill...dump it and build a golf course on top.
Former employees claim the utility was more
concerned about how much coal ash they could bury than 
anything
anythingelse about the project. Dominion denies anything wrong was done and says it will fight the suit vigorously.
It reminds me of the disguising of early cell-phone towers as trees. I don't know if they still do it, but back in the day they added fake bark and branches tried to make 'em look like (albeit unusually straight) pines.
Not sure if they ever really looked like anything other than fake trees. Were the birds convinced?
[UPDATE: an excellent report in the NY Times includes some aerial photos of the Arrowhead Landfill, showing heavy earth movers pushing the coal ash around. The Arrowhead officials would not allow me to see the operation, nor would they agree to an interview, when I filed a report on the operation for WBHM in Birmingham.]
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