Hoot Lake Plant

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Hoot Lake Plant has 7 groundwater monitoring wells, 2 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between September 13, 2016 and November 04, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of radium and cobalt.

Site description

Otter Tail Power Company’s Plant Hoot Lake is in Fergus Falls, Minnesota in Otter Tail County along the banks of an unnamed creek. The first of the plant’s three coal-fired units was built in 1948 (retired in 2006) while the other two were built in 1959 and 1964, respectively, and retired in 2021. The facility had a capacity of 140-MW. This plant currently operates a singular CCR Landfill that is regulated under the CCR rule.

You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the Hoot Lake Plant, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.

Monitoring Wells Wells reporting one or more exceedances for at least one pollutant.
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Pollutants monitored and above guidelines
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Pollutants monitored and below guidelines
antimony arsenic barium beryllium boron cadmium chromium fluoride lead lithium mercury molybdenum selenium sulfate thallium
Pollutants not monitored
ammonia, copper, cyanide, gross alpha particle, gross beta particle, hexavalent chromium, manganese, nickel, nitrate, nitrite, silver, strontium, tritium, uranium

Facility last updated on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 12:55:34 PM EDT