H.L. Spurlock Station has 20 groundwater monitoring wells, 13 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between March 08, 2010 and September 04, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of boron, lithium, radium, arsenic, molybdenum, barium, cadmium, sulfate, thallium, selenium, antimony and manganese.
Site descriptionEast Kentucky Power Cooperative’s H.L. Spurlock Power Station is a coal-fired power station near Maysville, Kentucky along South Ripley Road in Mason County. The station has four coal-fired units with a net capacity of 1,371-MW of electricity. The station has an ash pond and landfill regulated under CCR rule.
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the H.L. Spurlock Power Station, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.