During the 60-plus years of power being generated by coal-fired plants at Sandow, the facilities were frequently cited on a list of polluters by environmental groups.
Friday it happened again, a full year after Luminant ceased operations at the site.
The Environmental Integrity Project released a report of Texas coal-fired power plant sites which listed 10 water wells around a landfi ll as “contaminated.”
Contaminants listed at wells included thallium, cobalt, lead, mercury, sulfate, arsenic, lithium and chromium, above federal “health thresholds.”
The report noted the only regulated coal ash disposal at the site is the “relatively new” lined, 169-acre AX Landfill.
“Identifying contamination from the landfill site is complicated by the fact that the landfill is located within the former Sandow lignite coal mine,” the report states.
The Environmental Integrity Project terms itself “a nonprofit, non-partisan operation that empowers communities and empowers public health and the environment in investigating polluters, holding responsible under the law and strengthening public policy.”
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