East Bend Station has 28 groundwater monitoring wells, 12 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between January 20, 2010 and October 17, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of sulfate, lithium, manganese, cobalt, fluoride, lead and molybdenum.
Site descriptionEast Bend Station is a 600-MW coal-fired power plant located near Rabbit Hash, Kentucky along the Ohio River in Boone County. The station is owned by Duke Energy and has been operating a single turbine plant since it opened in 1981. East Bend disposes of its coal waste in three unlined surface impoundments and a special waste landfill. East Bend Station is among the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of potential damage cases, indicating that it has potentially polluted groundwater or surface water at levels which threaten human health and the environment.
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the East Bend Station, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.