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Having worked at IPL for a dozen years (in IT), I’m pretty sure the Eagle Valley coal ash ponds are some of the poorest maintained in the AES system. The coal power plant was built in the late 40’s, early 50’s. Some 20+ years ago one of the coal ash ponds dike failed sending tons of coal ash into white river at this site.
The new Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power plant opened there some 5 years ago, and the steam component of that plant needs cooling water, so it would be no surprise that they could be pumping lots of ground water everyday. Using ground water would also make sense in that the old coal power plant used river water, and when things got hot and dry in the summer, they had to limit the amount of hot water they dumped in the river, and that would often shut down the plant.
Using ground water also makes sense in that any coal ash contaminated water would not be moving toward any monitoring wells, and the water would just be flushed down river.
Giving AES the benefit of doubt, it’s also possible that when the permit was issued, that the current science underestimated the extent of ground water contamination from unlined coal ash ponds. So it could be possible that AES and HEC both believe they are right.
What a surprise. One of the most-lax EPAs in the country appears to be sleep at the wheel again. This has been going on for decades. Indiana’s EPA is basically a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chamber of Commerce.
Let’s build a beach…