The Water Is Toxic in the Town With America's Largest Coal Plant 

Flint, MI still doesn’t have clean water.

Greed kills humanity

I'm from Flint Mi and this story sounds so familiar it mind blowing. Why do we keep putting our faith in companys and government to solve these types of situations because the public always suffers in the end...

It’s extremely sad how they strategically place toxic plants and mines around/in poorer/minority/rural areas. Classism is real.

And while everyone is distracted about guns rights, abortion rights, who's the next president, yadda yadda, we're not even standing up for the most basic human necessity, and that is CLEAN WATER!

those sorry law makers who would stand behind a power company that is poisoning the law makers own people is despicable. these companies have more rights than actual Americans.

Vice - My town Riddle, Oregon has one of the most polluted mines in the U.S, 6 miles away EPA Superfund Site that hasn't been cleaned up going on 30 years now. Formosa Mine. Please look into this. Edit - This is from BLM website regarding the Formosa Mine I am talking about. The 76-acre Formosa Mine site is located on Silver Butte in Douglas County, Oregon. This abandoned mine discharges millions of gallons of acid rock drainage (ARD) and toxic metals into the upper reaches of Middle Creek and South Fork Middle Creek every year. These discharges have contaminated surface water, groundwater, soil and sediment with heavy metals.

It’s still toxic in Michigan, America’s “Great Lake state”.

Damn, I am from Georgia and never heard of this. Not surprised wild stuff is going on rural Georgia water. Georgia's Power is always plotting on everyone. We are unable to install solar panels or try to have hydroelectric power due to them.

Every comment is filled with replies saying “dems are as bad as reps” but dems are the ones fighting for more regulations on companies to protect the environment. That would prevent this. Everyone powerful owns businesses, it’s how you run your business that matters.

Spend money and human lives on military interventions overseas to destroy the homes and lives in foreign land rather than improve domestic infrastructure to make own homes safe and lives better for citizens.

Sad part is that I was about to buy shares in to this company..I refuse to invest in Georgia Power company knowing this is happening to people. I be spreading the word to family and friends. I believe in private research and not Georgia powers.Thank you Vice News

Makes me wanna get my well water checked lol as I too live in Georgia near one of those coal ponds oof

Watch trump say "its all the democrats fault" like he always do

My well water doesn’t have any heavy metal, only alternative rock ...

Pensatucky has three different counties with water that you can set fire to right now!!

Anybody else getting DuPont / Teflon dejavu vibes from this report? Oh, no? Just me.

It never surprises me anymore the length these companies go to hide and/or cover-up their bs. It's just amazing how long it goes on for =(

The infrastructure of our once great Nation is crumbling, whether from blatant negligence, or corruption of lawmakers. The commonwealth suffer from it, while we spent trillions on the war machine. We had a short run. Pax Romana (the golden age of Rome) lasted 150 years. Now comes the decline.

I used to work at the plant. Its bad, and only getting worse

Classic America being the best country ever in the world and multiverse.

As an immigrant I find that American people naive trust toward people with power to use it morally is the root to 99% of all problems in this beautiful country, still love American people❤❤❤

Sad that america sends troops overseas to help with infrastructure issues but we cant fix our own infrastructure in house. Makes no sense... we need a president who is focused on infrastructure rebuilding in america.

I was born and raised in Georgia, used to use Georgia Power for utilities, and have never heard of this. Absolutely shameful. The government does NOT care about the people!

We learned from Corona virus that money is more important than lives lost. "It is what it is"

It’s one man crusade to get a basic human right of clean drinking water

This is why coal is going bye-bye. Lloyds of London and many others will not finance the next toxic and global warming liability. If there were rich people around these criminal polluters it would be fixed or come to an end.

I’ve lived in Georgia my entire life and never heard of this.

Vice needs to do more work like this. The journalist is great too

Great job on covering this story! Our community is very thankful! ❤️🙏

Things have gone to hell for those poor people. It’s just like Flint Michigan. Sad is all I can say and feel. My prayers go out to you all. Thanks again for your show.

16 Million Dollars is pennies to the Power Company! Ridiculous!

If you have never been to this area of Georgia its a beautiful area. I use to live about 15 minutes away lots of history and sights to see. the river is awesome and the town of Juliette also is famous for its fried green tomatoes

I watched this yesterday. And you removed it. I guess I'll watch it again..

Arizona, Texas & New Mexico have various Radioactive Toxic and Bio-Chemical issues

Water is life. If you consider yourself pro-life and are turning a blind eye to this, shame on you

That's why I really liked what Andrew Yang and Bernie Sanders were saying about fixing the infrastructure of this country... we are worried about going overseas to fight a pointless and endless war when we have states and cities in OUR country that do not even have clean drinking water.

So someone needs to file a lawsuit

Reminds me a lot of my hometown. Lots of lobbying to state representatives makes the big corporation have a lot more say than the people dying from environmental exposure.

Kudos to the town of Juliette and Fletcher Sams for holding these a-holes accountable amd speaking truth to power!

God bless you Fletcher Sams, you are a real super hero.

Juliette, GA is located south of Atlanta and just north of Macon.

this needs to be exposed on a large scale

This is why we need to strengthen our EPA. The Environmental Protection Agency needs to be properly funded and the scientists that work at the EPA need to be paid a proper salary.

look at the darling river in Australia. You can set it on fire.

Profits shouldn't come at the expense of clean water. That trade is indefensible. Anyone who votes against clean water needs to be voted out of office.

When you hear deregulation, this is the result.

The same problem here on Salinas, Puerto Rico, U.S.A. Territory. Polluted waters and many people with cancer.

go after the shareholders and CEO of Georgia Power with real life HURT.

Issues like this is what the government needs to fix and resolve instead of saying irrelevant nonsense

You need a separate entity to test the waters. You can't rely on the people that are poisoning the water to test....lol

Why was this taken down yesterday and re-uploaded today? What was removed from the video?

I guess they really are "washing that coal clean" as Trump suggested.

At this point it's just an embarrassment that a modern western country fails at such a basic thing as providing drinkable water.

this is the kind of content from vice i miss

SEE. Now the people and politicians that knew this place was a timebomb should be held criminally responsible.

People: Georgia Power, why are you poisoning us and lying about it? Georgia Power: money.

THE ONLY HEAVEY METALS I LIKE , ARE DA ONES I HEARS AND NOTS DA ONES I DRANKS !!!!!

Why doesn't anyone mention fracking? That's what's destroying our water!

Flint still has no clean water as well. Lack of access to clean and healthy water in America should be a basic right and I don’t understand why these aren’t issues that are addressed and fixed immediately.

That’s capitalism for ya

Just remember that Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency has loosened the rules regulating the groundwater contamination by coal plants. Those aquifers are going to stay poisoned until those ponds get liners. I have worked in power plants since the late 70's. Georgia Power needs to pay up. I'll ask the question. Who else could have poisoned the aquifer?

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Corporations rule this country.

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Vote.org Great reporting! Thank you! And yeah I’m not thrilled about Donald taking away what precautions etc. we already have in place! Please friends if you care about anything, help vote him out!

The experts who refute the evidence of the well water toxicity should be forced to live there and drink that water.

Honestly if Georgia Power offers them ABOVE market value for their homes... they shoulda took it and moved to somewhere they know is Safe.

just because you have a property dont mean you should drink the water.i live beside a field, & i dont drink the water.with the chemicals & manure the farmers put on the field,there is no way in hell i would drink the water here.thats what bottled water is for.it beats drinking from a cows ass.

Hey dear Journalists - You are doing a good job! For the people & the story as well as corona prevention! You're effords are seen - thanks for keeping a reasonable distance & wearing masks when you're close! You're helping us all

Demand the lawmakers to drink the water they claim is safe. Force the water into their hands.

This is america how sad

Destroys the natural flowing rivers and then puts down pipes. Animals must be laughing at us.

So the water isn’t treated whatsoever? I think that’s the main issue

Environmental policy in this country is a joke.

Waters still fucked over here in “Pure“ Michigan too.

Why has someone don’t figured out a way to recycle the ash ? We can fly to and live in space but we can recycle ash so it doesn’t kill us ?

Is this another Erin Brockovich story.... sure looks like it is. Stay safe, stay sane, be well

I thought only Africa needed clean water? This is America

The world filled with nothing but souls who are missing someone.

That man at the end is a wonderful person.

"We want to build coal plants here, dump waste in these ponds." "OK, you need liners for those ponds." "We know, but that'll cost us some time and money." "Um, but you'll still make money, correct?" "Yes." "OK, then put in the liners." "No." "OK." - Georgia 1982

Shoulda took the money woman.

The last moment was like sad

When they ask why dont you leave the answer is simple. It's their home they built there life in thay box and people will fight some with their lives to keep that history.

Thank you for doing a story on local news.

So let me get this straight........you let companies put pollution into a water systems and are surprised when the water becomes polluted and toxic. Only in America will this outcome be shocking to anyone.

All water is polluted.

He said they cook with mostly clean water 😔

I mean The fact that she asked why it took so long it’s 16 million fucking dollars and there’s a least probably a mile or more of pipe being laid in the ground it’s gonna take a while

Sickening....

Water sucks Gatorade is better

Wonder if the cancer rate is higher in that area...🧐

Another flint Michigan

So these people dont have reticualted water supplies its their private supplies?

It might be time to leave Juliette.

In 1982 everybody knew an impermeable liner was needed in order to prevent leaching into groundwater. This is environmental racism/classism.

Where is Georgia's Erin Brockovich?

Environmental health should be #1 in our govt's priorities. As taxpaying citizens, the least we deserve is clean water to drink.