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

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.In an Advance Notice of Proposed...
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.The land, which was home to the now dismantled former coal-fired power plant, is in southeast Putnam County at...
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