Anniston/Gadsden Real-Time News Coosa Riverkeeper plans to sue Alabama Power over 1.5 million-ton coal ash pond in Gadsden Updated: May. 20, 2025, 3:05 p.m. | Published: May. 20, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management fined Alabama Power $250,000 in 2019 for high levels of arsenic and radium in the groundwater near the Gadsden pond.