Glen Lyn Disposal Site has 19 groundwater monitoring wells, 17 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between March 25, 2010 and September 24, 2014. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of manganese, molybdenum, strontium, arsenic, boron, sulfate, lead and cobalt.
Site descriptionThe Glen Lyn Disposal Site is located alongside the New River, in southwestern VA, and is reported as being one of two VA sites that have groundwater contamination due to coal ash.The site has two coal ash disposal ponds, a bottom ash pond and a fly ash pond. The disposal site accepted coal ash from the Glen Lyn Power Plant, a 338MW coal-fired power plant owned by American Electric that shut down in 2015.