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Cardinal Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by American Electric Power near Brilliant, Ohio.

Contents 1 Plant Data 2 Emissions Data 3 Coal Waste Site 4 Cardinal ranked 24th on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste 5 "High Hazard" Surface Impoundment 6 Articles and Resources 6.1 Sources 6.2 Related SourceWatch Articles 6.3 External Articles

Plant Data

• Owner: Cardinal Operating Company
• Parent Company: American Electric Power
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 1,880 MW
• Units and In-Service Dates: 615 MW (1967), 615 MW (1967), 650 MW (1977)
• Location: 306 County Road 7 East, Brilliant, OH 43913
• GPS Coordinates: 40.2462, -80.6526
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• 2006 CO₂ Emissions: 10,985,695 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions: 86,880 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• 2006 NO_x Emissions: 17,160 tons
• 2005 Mercury Emissions: 826 lb.

Coal Waste Site

• Cardinal Plant Bottom Ash Complex

Cardinal ranked 24th on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste

In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.^[1] The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.^[2]

Cardinal Plant ranked number 24 on the list, with 1,707,225 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.^[1]

"High Hazard" Surface Impoundment

Cardinal Plant's Fly Ash Reservoir 2 surface impoundment is on the EPA's official June 2009 list of Coal Combustion Residue (CCR) Surface Impoundments with High Hazard Potential Ratings. The rating applies to sites at which a dam failure would most likely cause loss of human life, but does not assess of the likelihood of such an event.^[3]

Articles and Resources

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Sue Sturgis, "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?," Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.
2. ↑ TRI Explorer, EPA, accessed January 2009.
3. ↑ Coal waste

• Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
• Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Ohio and coal
• American Electric Power
• United States and coal
• Global warming

External Articles

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