Plant Branch

Source of the controversy: two buckets of coal ash at the soon-to-beactivated Plant Branch facility for treating coal ash and transforming it into a concretehardening agent. COURTESY GEORGIA POWER

Source of the controversy: two buckets of coal ash at the soon-to-beactivated Plant Branch facility for treating coal ash and transforming it into a concretehardening agent. COURTESY GEORGIA POWER

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EPA proposes new coal ash permit plan

Ian Tocher
Thursday, July 23, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a new permitting approach that could affect coal ash cleanup projects nationwide, including ongoing closure and recycling efforts at Georgia Power’s retired Plant Branch in southern Putnam County.
A 2018 aerial view of two ponds on the Plant Branch site north of Milledgeville. Lake Sinclair is in the foreground. MARK ENGEL/File photo

A 2018 aerial view of two ponds on the Plant Branch site north of Milledgeville. Lake Sinclair is in the foreground. MARK ENGEL/File photo

Coal ash processing facility coming to Plant Branch

Mark Engel
Thursday, October 19, 2023
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.
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