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On January 11, 2022 EPA announced an enforcement action involving ash ponds at certain coal-fired plants in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and New York. The agency's proposal would deny the plants' requests for extensions beyond the 2021 deadline and would require them to close their ash ponds ahead of their proposed schedules.
There are four coal-ash basins at the H.F. Lee Steam Plant. [19] An active ash pond enclosed in a dyke lies opposite Quaker Neck Lake to the north of the river. [20] There are three inactive ash basins to the west of the river further upstream. [21] These are forested, do not impound water and are normally dry. [11]
The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land the Pella Wildlife Area, the largest of about 120 that have taken place in Iowa since ...
But the ash pond has still been receiving new water in the form of rain. Rain plus gravity can push the coal ash toxins out through the aquifer and to Berry Creek. That’s why, when Ash Pond 1 is ...
In 2018, the plant released 7,917,510 tons of CO 2, 4,547 tons of SO 2, and 2,572 tons of NO x. [10]There are three ponds at the plant which are used to store coal ash. Environmental groups like the Michigan Environmental Council claim that heavy metals and other residuals from these ponds have been leaking into groun
The James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant has a coal ash pond in a "hairpin crook of the Mobile River", which leaches heavy metals into the groundwater and into the river. [7] For this reason, the Mobile River was listed as the third most endangered river in America. [8]
One million gallons of coal ash-tainted water spilled at a Minnesota Power plant after a break in an underground plastic pipe, according to a company executive. The water, which was being siphoned ...
A coal-fired power plant with ash ponds. Bottom ash is part of the non-combustible residue of combustion in a power plant, boiler, furnace, or incinerator.In an industrial context, it has traditionally referred to coal combustion and comprises traces of combustibles embedded in forming clinkers and sticking to hot side walls of a coal-burning furnace during its operation.