Coal ash processing facility coming to Plant Branch
2018 aerial view of two ponds on the Plant Branch site north of Milledgeville. Lake Sinclair is in the foreground. MARK ENGEL/File photo
2021 Google Map image of the Plant Branch site in Putnam County. Ponds B, C, D & E contain coal ash, according to a Georgia Power survey map. The utility says that Pond A has already been closed. CONTRIBUTED
Georgia Power Company says it will be a decade or more before work is completed on the transfer of toxic coal ash from four ponds to a new 115-acre landfill on the old Plant Branch site.
The land, which was home to the now dismantled former coal-fired power plant, is in southeast Putnam County at the Baldwin County line.
The Eatonton Messenger has learned some of the coal ash will instead be process…
