Carbon Power Plant

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The Carbon Plant near Helper, Utah.

Carbon Power Plant, also known as Castle Gate Power Plant was a small, 190-MWe coal-fired power station in Utah, USA operated by PacifiCorp. Its units 1 and 2, rated at 75 and 113.6 MWe, were launched into service in 1954 and 1957.[1] The plant is located at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). north of Helper, Utah, on the east bank of Price River.

The plant was shut down on April 16, 2015. [2]

Environmental impact

Summary

Toxic release inventory (in pounds)[3] from the Carbon Plant for 2011.[4]
Pollutants released into: Air Water (Price River) Land Total on-site releases
Barium compounds 660 99 108,000 108,759
Lead compounds 63.2 0 3,361.3 3,424.5
Mercury compounds 16.5 0 42.2 58.7
Hydrochloric acid 322,000 0 0 322,000
Hydrogen fluoride 91,700 0 0 91,700

References

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  2. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865626442/End-of-an-era-Mercury-rule-shutters-Utahs-oldest-power-plant.html?pg=all
  3. Values greater than 1,000 have been rounded to two significant digits.
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