Appalachian Power Company

{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}}Appalachian Power Company is an American Electric Power (AEP) electric utility subsidiary. It is a public company categorized under "Distribution, electric power" and located in Columbus, OH. It was established in 1926 and incorporated in Virginia.

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Amos ranked 41st 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]

Amos Plant ranked number 41 on the list, with 864,024 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.^[1]

"High Hazard" Surface Impoundment

Amos Plant's Fly Ash Pond 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]

Contact Information

Appalachian Power Co
1 Riverside Plaza
Columbus, OH 43215-2373
United States
Tel: 1/614/223-1000
URL: http://www.apcocustomer.com

Articles and Resources

Sources

↑ ^{Jump up to: 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.
↑ TRI Explorer, EPA, accessed January 2009.
↑ Coal waste

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[iss-1] {Jump up to: 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

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