TS Power Plant has 8 groundwater monitoring wells, 8 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between January 27, 2016 and July 09, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of fluoride and boron.
Site descriptionNewmont Mining Company’s TS Power Plant is a 220-MW coal-fired plant located in Eureka County, NV. Plant TS began operations in 2008 as a power supply plant for the local Newmont Gold Mining Industry. This plant is one of only two remaining coal plants in the state of Nevada. The company is currently in progress converting the facility to natural gas, projected to be completed by the end of 2022 or start of 2023. Plant TS’s CCR landfill is regulated under the CCR-rule.
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the Springerville Generating Station, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.