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Image: Coal power plant wastestreams - EPA

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Description: Illustration of water pollution wastestreams at typical coal-fired electric power plants in the United States. The wastestreams include: flue gas desulfurization, fly ash, bottom ash, flue gas mercury control, landfill leachate, and gasification of fuels such as coal and petroleum coke. (POTW: Publicly owned treatment works; a municipal sewage treatment plant).
Title: Coal power plant wastestreams - EPA
Credit: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). "Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines—2015 Final Rule."
Author: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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