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29 lip 2024 · Does Georgia meet the EPA’s standards? At Plant Hammond, Georgia Power plans to excavate three of four coal ash ponds and move their contents to a landfill.
5 sie 2021 · 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 more) to leak into the Coosa River and Weiss Lake for decades to come.
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.
23 wrz 2023 · Saturday morning Georgia Power’s Plant Hammond smokestacks, considered by many as a Coosa landmark, stood for one last time before its scheduled demolition. Located off of Alabama Highway, Plant Hammond began commercial operation in 1954 and was retired in 2019.
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.
14 lis 2023 · ATLANTA— Today Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division issued final permits to close Georgia Power’s Plant Hammond Ash Pond 3 in Floyd County. The state issued permit calls for capping more than 1 million tons of toxic coal ash in place, partially sitting in ground water on the bank of the Coosa River.
