Columbia Municipal Power Plant

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Columbia Municipal Power Plant has 9 groundwater monitoring wells, 9 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between December 20, 2017 and December 04, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of lithium, sulfate and mercury.

Site description

Columbia Municipal Power Plant is a 39-MW facility with two coal-fired units located in Columbia, Missouri in Boone County. The station was first operational in 1957 and is owned by Columbia Water & Light. Columbia has as inactive surface impoundment regulated that formerly received CCR from facility operations.

You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the Columbia Municipal Power 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 cobalt fluoride lead molybdenum radium selenium 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, November 02, 2022 10:13:39 AM EDT