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.

Alabama Power’s Gadsden Steam Plant was demolished last year after 109 years on the river, but the unlined coal ash pond remains, and, according to the Coosa Riverkeeper, continues to leech ...

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.