Environmental groups oppose a draft permit from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for the Ottumwa Generating Station. (Photo via Google Maps)
Several environmental groups are urging the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to deny a wastewater permit for an Ottumwa coal plant because, they say, it “unlawfully” avoids federal guidelines for coal combustion leachate discharges.
DNR and Alliant Energy, which owns the plant, say the permit request updates a “technical issue” from a previously issued permit for the Ottumwa Generating Station and the federal guidelines in question cannot be upheld because the station does not discharge leachate…