Plant Greene County has 29 groundwater monitoring wells, 22 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between February 16, 2016 and September 11, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of cobalt, lithium, arsenic, molybdenum, sulfate, radium, antimony, selenium, cadmium, fluoride and thallium.
Site descriptionPlant Greene County was a 568-MW facility located near Forkland, Alabama. Plant Greene County is owned by the Alabama Power Company and located in proximity to the Black Warrior River. The plant was converted to natural gas in 2016. Coal ash was disposed of in an ash pond, which began to operate in 1964 and was expanded in 1996.
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the Plant Greene County, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.