D.B. Wilson Generating Station has 9 groundwater monitoring wells, 9 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between April 21, 2010 and November 07, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of sulfate, cobalt, lithium, arsenic, lead, nickel, cadmium and thallium.
Site descriptionBig Rivers Electric Corporation's D.B. Wilson Generating Station is a 417-MW coal-fired power plant located in Centertown, Kentucky close to the Green River in Ohio County. The plant was built in 1984 and disposes of coal ash and other coal combustion wastes in an unlined landfill located on an abandoned, un-reclaimed coal strip mine. According to a January 2017 inspection report, the landfill contained about 2.2 million cubic yards of coal combustion waste. Contaminated leachate from the landfill has been found to have been draining through unlined ditches and into an unlined sediment pond since 2010 and possibly as early as 2003. As of Spring 2017, this issue was still under investigation.
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the D.B. Wilson Generating Station, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.