CCR Rule Compliance Data and Information

Closing ash ponds safely and permanently

• The company is treating and removing all water from the pond.
• Material will be excavated and moved farther away from waterways, creating buffers of up to 750 yards from the Mobile River – a distance in some places longer than seven football fields.
• The size will be reduced by more than 250 acres, or by more than a third.
• Using advanced engineering, Alabama Power will construct a redundant dike system as part of the plant’s increased, robust flood-protection measures.
• The company will install a specially engineered barrier over the material to keep it safely in place.
• Storm water systems will be added to manage rainwater runoff.
• Alabama Power will monitor groundwater around the facility for at least 30 years to ensure ongoing protection of water quality.