Dan River Steam Station has 62 groundwater monitoring wells, 58 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between January 04, 2011 and August 20, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of lithium, arsenic, boron, barium, cadmium, cobalt, lead, manganese, molybdenum, thallium, beryllium, chromium, mercury, antimony and selenium.
Site descriptionDan River Steam Station was a 276-MW coal-fired power station owned by Duke Energy. The station is in Eden, North Carolina. It opened in 1949 and retired in 2012. In February 2014, Duke Energy reported that between 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash spilled into the Dan River near Eden. A 48-inch storm water pipe beneath Duke's unlined ash pond broke, and water and ash from the 27-acre pond drained into the pipe. According to EcoWatch, the coal ash spill appears to be the third largest in U.S. history. The station has three units regulated under the CCR rule: primary ash basin, secondary ash basin and CCP landfill.
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the Dan River Steam Station, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.