# Coal

- Fired Power Plants using Once

- Through Cooling with Endangered Species Impacts

Plant Name State Water Body Fuel Type Daily

Intake Capacity (mill. of gallons) Threatened or e ndangered species living in water body Records of power pla nt affecting endang ered species

Crystal River 1

- 3 Florida Gulf of

Mexico Coal/

Nuclear 2,167.9 Protected species of dolphins (Atlantic spotted, Risso’s, and bottlenose) Endangered Fish (ex. Alabama shad, salt marsh topminnow, and mangrove rivulus) Endangered Sea Turtles (ex

. Loggerhead, hawksbill) Threatened Sea Turtles (Kemp’s ridley, green, leatherback) T he Crystal River Plant’s water intake structures have impinged at least five species of threatened or endangered sea

turtles

– loggerhead, green, Kemp’s ridley,

leatherbac k, and hawksbill

Big Bend Florida Gulf of

Mexico Coal 1,395.4 Protected species of dolphins (Atlantic spotted, Risso’s, and bottlenose) Endangered Fish (ex. Alabama shad, salt marsh topminnow, and mangrove rivulus) Endangered Sea Turtles (ex. Loggerhead, hawksbill) Threatened Sea Turtles (Kemp’s ridley, green, leatherback) From 1976 to 1977 the annual impingement was estimated at over a quarter of a million

fish. 1

Between 1976 to 1977 the plant killed an estimated 68 billion bay anchovy (the bay anchovy is not endangered).

Lansing Smith Florida Gulf of

Mexico Coal 273.9 Protected species of dolphins (Atlantic spotted, Risso’s, and bottlenose) Endangered Fish (ex. Alabama shad, salt marsh topminnow, and mangrove rivulus) Endangered Sea Turtles (Loggerhead, hawksbill) Threatened Sea Turtles (Kemp’sridley, green, leatherback)

Jack Watson Mississippi Gulf of

Mexico Coal 125.3 Protected species of dolphins (Atlantic spotted, Risso’s, and bottlenose) Endangered Fish (ex. Alabama shad, salt marsh topminnow, and mangrove rivulus) Endangered Sea Turtles (ex. Loggerhead, hawksbill) Threatened Sea Turtles (Kemp’s ridley, green, leatherback)

Danskammer New York Hudson

River Coal 457 Endangered Fish (Shortnose Sturgeon) In certain years, power plants along the

Hudso n River (including but not limited to Dansmakker) have entrained between 33 and 79 percent of the eggs and larvae spawned by striped bass, American shad, Atlantic tomcod, and 5 other important species. 2 The ecology of the Hudson River has also changed sin ce the plants have been in existence, with many fish species in decline and populations becoming less

stable. 3

Chesapeake Virginia Chesapeake Bay Coal 513.6 Endangered Species (peregrine Falcon, loggerhead turtle, Atlantic ridley turtle, Shortnose Sturgeo n)

Chesterfield Virginia Chesapeake Bay Coal 845.6

Morgantown Maryland Chesapeake Bay Coal 1,441.8

Potomac River Virginia Chesapeake Bay Coal 450.3

Allen Steam Plant Tennessee Mississippi

River Coal 496.8

Alma Wisconsin Mississippi

River Coal 181.5 Endangered species (Skipjack herring, Bluntnose darter, Goldeye, Black redhorse, etc.) Threatened species (Numerousfish) Big Cajun Louisiana Mississippi

River Coal 361.8

Genoa Wisconsin Mississippi

River Coal 244.2 Endangered species (Skipjac k herring, Bluntnose darter, Goldeye, Black redhorse, etc.) Threatened species (Numerous fish) John P. Madgett Wisconsin Mississippi

River Coal 322.4 Endangered species (Skipjack herring, Bluntnose darter, Goldeye, Black redhorse, etc.) Threatened specie s (Numerous fish) Lansing Iowa Mississippi

River Coal 330.8 Endangered Species (Topeka Shiner, Higgins eye pearlymussel, sheepnose mussel, Spetaclecase mussel, Pallid Sturgeon, etc.)

Meramec Missouri Mississippi

River Coal 675.1 Endangered Fish (Pallid sturgeon, Topeka shiner) Milton L Kapp Iowa Mississippi

River Coal 175.1 Endangered Species (Topeka Shiner, Higgins eye pearlymussel, sheepnose mussel, Spetaclecase mussel, Pallid Sturgeon, etc.)

Muscatine Plant

#1 Iowa Mississippi

River Coal 301 End angered Species (Topeka Shiner, Higgins eye pearlymussel, sheepnose mussel, Spetaclecase mussel, Pallid Sturgeon, etc.) Nelson Dewey Wisconsin Mississippi

River Coal 143.9 Endangered species (Skipjack herring, Bluntnose darter, Goldeye, Black redhorse, e tc.) Threatened species (Numerous fish)

New Madrid Missouri Mississippi

River Coal 956.1

Nine Mile Point Louisiana Mississippi

River Coal 1,497.4

Riverside Iowa Mississippi Coal 246.7 Endangered Species (TopekaRiver Shiner, Higgins eye pearlymusse l, sheepnose mussel, Spetaclecase mussel, Pallid Sturgeon, etc.)

Riverside Minnesota Mississippi

River Coal 277.1

Rush Island Missouri Mississippi

River Coal 863.1 Endangered Fish (Pallid sturgeon, Topeka shiner)

Sioux Missouri Mississippi

River Coa l 705.4 Endangered Fish (Pallid sturgeon, Topeka shiner)

Wood River Illinois Mississippi

River Coal 589.2

Ashtabula Ohio Lake Erie Coal 1,016.8 Endangered Species (Lake Erie water snake, sturgeon)

Avon Lake Ohio Lake Erie Coal 1,607.9 Endangered Spe cies (Lake Erie water snake, sturgeon) Bay Shore Ohio Lake Erie Coal 742.3

Conners Creek Michigan Lake Erie Coal 323

Dunkirk New York Lake Erie Coal 579

Eastlake Ohio Lake Erie Coal 1,158.3 Edgewater Wisconsin Lake Erie Coal 406.9

J.R. Whi ting Michigan Lake Erie Coal 308.1

Lake Shore Ohio Lake Erie Coal 622.7

Monroe Michigan Lake Erie Coal 2,012.9 River Rouge Michigan Lake Erie Coal 647.9

B.C. Cobb Michigan Lake Michigan Coal 558.1

Bailly Indiana Lake Michigan Coal 442.5

C rawford Illinois Lake Michigan Coal 552.3

Dean H. Mitchell Indiana Lake Michigan Coal 746.1

Fisk Illinois Lake Michigan Coal 301.7

J.H. Campbell Michigan Lake Michigan Coal 886.3Michigan City Indiana Lake Michigan Coal 229.9

Pulliam Wiscons in Lake Michigan Coal 564.6

South Oak Creek Wisconsin Lake Michigan Coal 1,136.9

State Line Indiana Lake Michigan Coal 605.9

Trenton Channel Michigan Lake Michigan Coal 515.5

Waukegan Illinois Lake Michigan Coal 852

Will County Illinois Lake Michigan Coal 1,292

Belle River Michigan Lake Huron Coal 949.6

Dan E Karn Michigan Lake Huron Coal 465.12

Harbor Beach Michigan Lake Huron Coal 129.2

J.C. Weadock Michigan Lake Huron Coal 344.9 Marysville Michigan Lake Huron Coal 609.2

S t. Clair Michigan Lake Huron Coal 1,343.7 Huntley New York Lake

Ontario Coal 846

Presque Isle Michigan Lake Superior Coal 415.4

Bridgeport Harbor Connecticut Long Island

Sound Coal/Oil 541

1 § 316(b) Case Studies, Part D: The Ta mpa Bay Watershed Case, Table D3

- 2, found at http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cqa/316b/phase2/upload/chd1.pdf (last visited May 16, 2011)

2 NYSDEC, New Yo rk State Water Quality Report 2006 (Published 2007).

3 PISCES Conservation, Ltd., The Status of Fish Populations and the Ecology of the Hudson (April 2008) at 37

- 38; see also PISCES Conservation, Ltd., Entrainment, Impingement, and Thermal Impacts at India n Point Nuclear Power Station (November 2007) at 43

- 44.