Facility detail

COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES RAY NIXON POWER PLANT

6598 RAY NIXON RD, FOUNTAIN, CO, 80817

Parent company: COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES

Carcinogen PBT — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

Top chemical totals

The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.

Full release table

Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.

All values in pounds (lbs)
Year Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) Hydrogen fluoride Barium And Barium Compounds Zinc compounds Vanadium compounds Total (lbs)
2024 — 2,509 46,514 — 63,591 167,875
2023 — 2,087 100,829 — 5,919 162,603
2022 — 2,172 52,413 — — 93,768
2021 — 3,134 138,772 — 4,657 161,637
2020 — 5,029 199,196 13,884 8,203 250,314
2019 — 3,639 177,854 10,152 8,056 214,306
2018 180,556 2,900 — 14,422 8,060 222,567
2017 389,377 52,000 — — 15,051 501,894
2016 254,022 53,000 — 19,506 — 337,492
2015 383,027 41,000 — 24,391 15,046 508,594
2014 264,511 57,000 — 22,508 — 387,141
2013 433,698 79,000 — 29,870 29,045 666,023
2012 604,605 61,000 — 36,510 43,041 855,858
2011 694,183 63,000 — 36,621 28,038 927,461
2010 711,990 56,253 — 38,423 34,995 966,908
2009 879,863 52,354 — 44,949 36,334 1,172,183
2008 1,071,420 72,112 — 57,102 36,653 1,415,846
2007 792,272 37,000 — 40,042 34,063 1,052,995
2006 1,050,413 7,620 — 54,411 34,858 1,278,026
2005 1,030,362 51,000 — 52,851 29,052 1,318,309
2004 930,351 49,000 — 53,981 35,064 1,182,030
2003 950,311 42,000 — 58,714 32,041 1,231,537
2002 1,000,505 49,000 — 16,255 49,255 1,231,892
2001 820,260 56,000 — 19,255 45,255 1,019,141
2000 420,255 62,000 — — 10,250 521,544
1999 270,255 47,000 — — — 367,470
1998 360,255 66,000 — — — 488,010

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