Clifty Creek Power Plant has 27 groundwater monitoring wells, 23 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between January 14, 2010 and May 18, 2021. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of boron, molybdenum, arsenic, manganese, lithium, sulfate, cobalt, radium and lead.
Site descriptionThe Clifty Creek Station, located in Madison, Indiana, is a 1,304-MW coal-fired generating plant operated by the Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corporation, a subsidiary of the Ohio Valley Electric Company. The Clifty Creek Station has six 217.26-MW generating units and has been in operation since 1955. Beginning in 1955, ash products were sluiced to disposal ponds located in the plant site. There are three CCR units at the Station: Type I Residual Waste Landfill (Landfill), Landfill Runoff Collection Pond (LRCP) and, West Boiler Slag Pond (WBSP).
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about the Clifty Creek Station, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.