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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Ash Cloud Released by Four Corners Plant
Associated Press
FRUITLAND — Four Corners Power Plant operators blame equipment failure for a cloud of black ash released by the coal-fired power plant earlier this week.
Plant spokesman Nathan Tohtsoni says it's not clear how much ash was released.
He says equipment designed to retain it unexpectedly shut down Tuesday, sending particulate ash — a fine powder made up of pulverized coal — into the air around the plant in northwestern New Mexico at Fruitland.
Tohtsoni says the problem was quickly resolved.
He says a report would be sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The ash came from one of the plant's five units, which Tohtsoni says was taken out of service afterward.
The 2,000-megawatt plant is operated by Arizona Public Service Company.
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