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Rank in Toxic 100 Water: 39
Surface Water releases 2019 (lbs): 60,375
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2019 (lbs): 0
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2019: 371,666,196
Percentage of national total 2019 surface water and POTW hazard: 0.1%
EJ: Near Poor Share: 36%
EJ: Minority Share: 38%

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This company has information in PERI's Toxic Air database.
This company is rank 3 on the Greenhouse 100 list.

Facilities displayed below: (
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BARRY STEAM PLANT BUCKS AL 7,430 0 158,667,390 42.69% 28.8% 37.4% 31.2% 2.7%
WANSLEY STEAM ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT CARROLLTON GA 5,641 0 135,114,595 36.35% 37.6% 42.2% 33.0% 5.2%
E C GASTON ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT WILSONVILLE AL 6,678 0 45,676,582 12.29% 34.3% 32.6% 27.2% 2.9%
BOWEN STEAM ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT CARTERSVILLE GA 18,980 0 18,189,163 4.89% 33.9% 21.0% 12.8% 5.7%
MILLER STEAM PLANT QUINTON AL 7,891 0 13,983,288 3.76% 30.0% 30.4% 24.5% 3.1%
GORGAS STEAM PLANT PARRISH AL 13,548 0 34,929 0.01% 33.9% 8.4% 6.2% 0.4%
MISSISSIPPI POWER CO - PLANT DANIEL MOSS POINT MS 40 0 250 0.00% 37.1% 18.9% 15.6% 2.1%
MCDONOUGH/ATKINSON STEAM ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT ATLANTA GA 150 0 0 0.00% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
HAMMOND STEAM ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT ROME GA 4 0 0 0.00% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
MCINTOSH ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT RINCON GA 13 0 0 0.00% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

For explanations of most columns above, including the EJ Shares, see the technical notes.

Toxic hazard: Pounds of direct releases to surface water and pounds transferred to Publicly Operated Treatment Works (POTW's) reported in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory for the year 2019, weighted by toxicity of chemicals. Weights are from the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators project. For details, see technical notes.

Quantity of toxic surface water releases and POTW transfers: Pounds of toxic chemicals released directly to surface water at each TRI facility or transferred off-site to a POTW, without weighting for toxicity or population.

* Split: if 50% appears in this column, then the facility's releases have been split among two 50/50% ownership parent companies for their parent company data, although the full pounds and hazard are displayed here.

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