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1. City of Lakeland, [[McIntosh Power Plant]]: Groundwater around two unlined coal ash landfills and ponds is contaminated with arsenic, cadmium, lead, selenium, and other pollutants above federal and state standards. FDEP Consent Order was issued in 2001 to address monitoring and cleanup. In 2010, the drinking water standard for arsenic was exceeded in 15 wells. Disposal areas are near Lake Parker, a recreational lake with densely populated shoreline.
 
2. [[Florida Power & Light]], [[Lansing Smith Generating Plant]]: Documented exceedances of primary drinking water standards for cadmium, chromium and fluoride and secondary drinking water standards for sulfate, chloride, manganese and iron in on-site groundwater attributable to coal ash.
 
3. Florida Power and Light, Everglades Plant: Exceedance of one or more standards down flow from the plant’s disposal facility that does not impact drinking water wells offsite.
 
4. [[Orlando Utilities]], Curtis [[Stanton Energy Center]]: For over 20 years, groundwater contamination around the plant’s coal ash landfill and ponds has been well documented. Data show concentrations of aluminum, chloride, iron, manganese, and sodium five to hundreds of times above FDEP Groundwater and Surface Water Clean-up Target Levels. Surface water samples also exceed FDEP Freshwater Surface Water Quality Criteria.”
 
5. [[Seminole Electric Cooperative]], [[Seminole Generating Station]]: Coal ash ponds and a flue gas desulfurization landfill contaminated groundwater at the property line up to one mile from the landfill. Arsenic and lead exceed federal standards in groundwater by 19 and 10 times, respectively. Deep and shallow aquifers are contaminated far above FL Clean-Up Target Levels for sulfate, chloride, iron, TDS and boron.
 
6. Tampa Electric Company, [[Big Bend Station]]: Off-site groundwater exceeds federal drinking water standards and FL Clean-up Target Levels for thallium, sulfate, chloride and manganese. Arsenic in on-site groundwater was measured at 11 times the drinking water standard, and many other pollutants were also measured at levels far above FL Groundwater Clean-up Target Levels at on-site locations. Thallium was measured in off-site groundwater at more than twice the federal standard, and at groundwater monitoring locations closer to coal ash disposal areas, at 8 times the federal standard.