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Plant Locations. Click each location to view additional information. Plant Hammond began commercial operation in 1954 in Floyd County, Georgia and was retired in 2019. Prior to retirement, the plant had four coal-fired units capable of producing 800 MW of electricity.
23 lut 2024 · Georgia Power announced on Thursday, January 31, 2019, their plans for the decertification of Plant Hammond, a coal-fired power plant located West of Rome, Georgia on the Coosa River. In recent years, Georgia Power has slowed updates for the 1954 plant to a halt, and this announcement did not surprise many.
Georgia Power Company’s Plant Hammond was an 800-MW coal plant in Coosa, Georgia, near the Coosa River in Floyd County. Hammond opened in 1954 and retired in 2019. Prior to retirement, the plant had four coal-fired units. The plant operated three active disposal areas: two unlined ash ponds and one landfill that cumulatively contained 60,000 ...
9 sie 2021 · Here in Georgia, the state Environmental Protection Division has issued the first proposed permit allowing Georgia Power to press forward with plans to leave more than 1 million tons of coal ash in an unlined pit at Floyd County’s Plant Hammond near the Coosa River.
29 lip 2024 · In 2019, when Georgia Power retired Plant Hammond — a 65-year-old coal-burning facility near Rome — it was more than a matter of shutting down some machinery and flipping off the lights.
11 sty 2022 · Plant Hammond’s Ash Pond 3 is partially located in the 100-year floodplain and regularly interacts with groundwater. As a result, this closure plan will allow toxic components of coal ash (such as arsenic, cadmium, selenium, and… Read More. New Evidence Confirms Georgia Power Coal Ash Pits Slated for Cap in Place Submerged in Groundwater.
21 lis 2023 · Environmental advocates are calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to act after state regulators issued a final permit signing off on Georgia Power’s plans to leave coal ash partly submerged in groundwater at Floyd County’s Plant Hammond.
