Cherokee Station has 9 groundwater monitoring wells, 9 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between December 08, 2015 and December 10, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of lithium, sulfate, molybdenum, boron, cobalt, lead, arsenic, cadmium, fluoride, radium and selenium.
Site descriptionCherokee Station is an 801-MW facility owned and operated by Xcel Energy. Built in 1968, it was previously composed of four coal-fired units: Units 1 and 2 were shut down in 2011-2012 to be converted to natural gas in 2015; Unit 3 was shut down in 2015; and Unit 4 was converted to natural gas in 2017. Cherokee station is in Denver, Colorado in Denver County where 61,559 people live within a 3-mile radius of the plant. The plant has four units regulated under the federal coal ash rule: the West, Center, and East bottom ash impoundments, which closed in 2018, and the Cooling Tower Retention Pond, which closed in 2017.
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the Cherokee Station, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.