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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.
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.
5 sie 2021 · Georgia Power is seeking approval from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) for Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) permits to cap nearly 50 million tons of toxic coal ash in place in unlined pits, starting with Plant Hammond’s 1 million ton Ash Pond 3 in Rome, GA.
23 lut 2024 · Coverage, Plant Hammond. 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.
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.
22 lut 2024 · EPD issued a permit in November that allows Georgia Power to put a cap on a coal ash pond at Plant Hammond, but otherwise leave the ash in place in the ground. The permit also requires monitoring groundwater for contamination for at least 30 years.
13 wrz 2021 · Georgia Power plans to leave the coal ash in Hammond AP-3 in-place and unlined, which is particularly unsafe due to the unstable terrain. Georgia Power’s own data shows that coal ash is already leaking into groundwater, contaminating it with dangerous toxins including barium, chromium, lead, and boron.
