[CPEO-BIF] Former Tanners Creek Power Plant site, Lawrenceburg, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

IDEM: Lawrenceburg Ash Pond Closure Plan On Hold As Federal Cases Linger


By Mike Perleberg 
Eagle Country Online (IN)
October 5, 2018

(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - A federal court ruling is throwing into question a closure plan for one ash pond at the former Tanners Creek Power Plant site in Lawrenceburg.

Tanners Creek Development, LLC is prepping the 725-acre power plant property for potential redevelopment as Indiana’s third and newest shipping port on the Ohio River. The company bought the property from American Electric Power in 2016.

Part of the brownfield redevelopment process is closing the storage areas where fly ash from the power plant’s 60 years of coal-burning operations are buried. Tanners Creek Development is seeking to close and cap the ash landfills containing millions of tons of coal combustion residuals known to contain arsenic, lead, mercury, chromium, and other contaminants.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.eaglecountryonline.com/news/local-news/idem-lawrenceburg-ash-pond-closure-plan-on-hold-as-federal-cases-linger/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
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