Hayden Station has 7 groundwater monitoring wells, 7 of which have been polluted above federal advisory levels based on samples collected between December 05, 2015 and September 26, 2019. Groundwater at this site contains unsafe levels of lithium, sulfate, boron, molybdenum and cobalt.
Site descriptionHayden Station is a 446-MW facility in Hayden, Colorado in Routt County. The facility was built in 1965 with one coal-fired unit, with an additional unit built in 1976. Hayden is operated by the Public Service Company of Colorado and owned by Xcel Energy. The company announced in 2021 that the facility’s Unit 2 will be retired by 2027, and Unit 1 by 2028 with the closure of the facility. It has an unlined landfill regulated under the federal coal ash rule. The landfill covers an area of about 136 acres.
You can find the industry-reported data here. For more information about Hayden Station, see EIP's 2019 National Coal Ash Report.