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Widows Creek Fossil Plant

1622 Steam Plant Access Road
Stevenson, AL 35772

Owner - Operator

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Impoundment Hazard Rating

None

Well Count

7

total with

6

reporting at least one exceedance

Well ID	Exceedances	Status
31	1	1
W-10	0	0
WCF-10-48	2	2
WCF-10-49	1	1
WCF-10-50	2	2
WCF-10-51	1	1
WCF-10-52	6	6

Total Exceedances / Total Samples

13 / 398 3%

Pollutant Details

NH₃ Ammonia

Sb Antimony

As Arsenic

Ba Barium

Be Beryllium

B Boron

Cd Cadmium

Cr Chromium

Co Cobalt

Cu Copper

CN Cyanide

F Fluoride

GAP Gross Alpha

GBP Gross Beta

Pb Lead

Mn Manganese

Hg Mercury

Mo Molybdenum

Ni Nickel

NO₃ Nitrate

NO₂ Nitrite

Ra Radium

Se Selenium

Ag Silver

Sr Strontium

SO₄ Sulfate

Tl Thallium

T Tritium

U Uranium

About Widows Creek Fossil Plant

The Widows Creek Fossil Plant is located on the Tennessee River in Stevenson, AL. Widows Creek itself is a partially rechanneled stream that flows through the site. TVA built Units 1 through 6 in the 1950s. Two more units, Units 7 and 8, came online in 1964. As part of a recent compliance agreement with EPA, TVA has agreed to retire units 1-6 between 2013 and 2015, and all six units are currently idle. In November 2013 TVA announced that it was retiring Unit 8.

Widows Creek has had a series of large and small structural issues over its lifetime, including erosion and sloughing along the southern perimeter of the bottom ash stack within Ash Pond A, seepage around Main Ash Pond A and the Old Scrubber Sludge Pond, and a large spill of gypsum from the active Gypsum Stack into the stilling pond and Widows Creek in January of 2009.

More information can be found about this site in EIP's report, TVA's Toxic Legacy, available here.

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